Selig sind die Toten
Introduction German grave cross with the text ''Selig im Herrn'' ("Blessed in the Lord")'''''' (English: Blessed are the dead) is the incipit of a verse from the Bible frequently used in funeral music of German-speaking composers.The text appears in Revelation 14:13.In the Luther Bible it begins , in English "Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord, from henceforth" ().The most famous settings are a six-part motet by Heinrich Schütz published in his 1648 collection , and the last movement of  by Johannes Brahms.Other settings include those by Hugo Distler, Johann Hermann Schein, Gottfried Scheidt, Karl Piutti, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (op. 115 n. 1). Johann Sebastian Bach used the verse in a recitative of his cantata ''.
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