As a student, Petersen wrote a 1668 wedding poem for Dieterich Buxtehude.
Dieterich Buxtehude | Heinz Dieterich lectures about ''21st Century Socialism'' at the World Federation of Democratic Youth |
The famous Totentanzorgel (Danse Macabre organ), an instrument played by Dieterich Buxtehude and, due to requests asking for it to be examined when it needed repair, most probably Johann Sebastian Bach, was also destroyed.