(Det’-rikh Books-te-hoo’-de) c. 1637–1707 German composer Buxtehude was born in Scandinavia, but from 1668 until his death held the post of organist at St Mary’s, Lübeck. The position did not require him to provide much in the way of vocal music; he also wrote cantatas and arias for the Abendmusiken (public concerts), in which he was deeply involved. His cantatas ...
, following models established by Froberger, sacred cantatas, Passions and songs. Recommended Recording: Keyboard Works, Rinaldo Alessandrini (Astrée) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Dietrich Buxtehude | Early Baroque | Classical ...
at St Catharine’s, Hamburg, becoming his assistant then successor. Reincken was both teacher and virtuoso organist. Many musicians travelled to hear him play, including Georg Böhm (1661–1733), Buxtehude and J. S. Bach. In 1720 Bach himself played on the organ of St Catharine’s before an audience that included the 97-year-old Reincken. Little of his organ music has survived ...
in ornamental variation. His suites for two violins and continuo – Musicalische Ergötzung – were published in the 1690s and his Hexachordum Apollinis for organ or harpsichord, dedicated to Buxtehude, in 1699. Today he is best known for his three-part canon in D major. Recommended Recording: Canon & Gigue, Two Suites, Aria con variazioni; Buxtehude: Three Sonatas ...
soon began. One night he drew his sword on an arrogant youth. Six months later he extended four weeks’ study leave to four months, enraptured by the organist Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1717). To compound his wrongdoings, he was accused in 1706 of unlawfully admitting a young lady into the organ loft. These youthful indiscretions caused him to decide to ...
was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.’ Handel on the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ in his Messiah Leading Exponents Dietrich Buxtehude Arcangelo Corelli Alessandro Scarlatti François Couperin Georg Philipp Telemann Jean-Philippe Rameau Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Domenico Scarlatti Late Baroque Style Composers of the Late Baroque period ...
of the seventeenth century, Hamburg attained a cultural ascendancy that it was to maintain into the eighteenth century. As home to a series of great organists, including Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707), it became the centre of the burgeoning repertory of Protestant organ music. Catholic Repercussions The Council of Trent was finally called by Pope Paul III as a reaction ...
published in Germany, England, France, Italy and elsewhere in the early seventeenth century. From around the 1650s, suites were written by composers such as Froberger and Buxtehude (for keyboard) in Germany; Denis Gaultier (1603–72) (for lute), Chambonnières and Couperin (for keyboard) in France; and William Lawes (strings), Purcell (keyboard) and Locke (strings, keyboard) in England. Other ...
built at this time: he knew Gottfried Silbermann, and is thought to have travelled when a young man to Hamburg to hear Reincken play and to Lübeck to hear Buxtehude play. Styles & Forms | Early Baroque | Classical Arts & Culture | Violin Makers | Early Baroque | Classical ...
free sections in regular rhythms, sombre adagios and lively fugues. His organ toccatas may be genuine introductory pieces followed by a separate fugue, or, like those of Buxtehude, they may combine free and fugal writing. The famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor is typical of his style: after a short free introduction, the toccata itself ...
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