Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

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Cat No: 8553787

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 730099478724

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BUXTEHUDE

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Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637 -1707)Membra Jesu nostri Johann Rosenmuller (c.1619 -1684)Sinfonia XI The imperial free city of Lubeck, a member of the HanseaticLeague, had held a position second only to Hamburg, The development of thelatter during the seventeenth century was very considerable, Lubeck, on theother hand, fared less well, but remained, nevertheless, an importantcommercial centre. Much of the musical life of the city revolved around theMarienkirche, the church of the city council, where Franz Tunder had beenappointed organist in 1641. Tunder, a composer abie to further the synthesis ofthe Lutheran with the Italian influences exemplified in the music of Heinrich Schutz,established weekly Thursday organ recitals that grew into more elaborateconcerts, with other instrumental players, from among the seven official townmusicians, and with singers. Dietrich Buxtehude, born, it is thought, in Oldesloeabout the year 1637 and claiming, it seems, Danish identity, was the son of anorganist and schoolmaster. His father moved briefly from Oldesloe, in the Duchyof Holstein, to Helsingborg as organist of the Marienkirche there, followingthis with removal to a similar position at the Olaikirche in the Danish city of Helsingborg, an appointment he heid for some thirty years, from 1641 or 1642until his retirement in 1671. Buxtehude himself had his musical education fromhis father and served as organist at the Marienkirche in Helsingborg from 1657or 1658 until 1660, when he returned to Helsingborg as organist at theMarienkirche there. In 1668 he was elected organist at the Marienkirche in Lubeck,succeeding Franz Tunder, who had died in the previous year, and marryingTunder's younger daughter, seemingly a condition or tradition of theappointment. Tunder's elder daughter had married Samuel Franck, Cantor of theMarienkirche and the Catharineum. At the Marienkirche in Lubeck Buxtehude made some changesin the musical traditions of the church with the establishment of a series of Abendmusikconcerts, given now on five Sunday afternoons in the year, events thatattracted wide interest. As an organist Buxtehude represented the height ofNorth German keyboard traditions, exercising decisive influence over thefollowing generation, notably on Johann Sebastian Bach, who undertook the longjourney from Arnstadt to Lubeck to hear him play. Handel too visited Buxtehude,with his friend and colleague Mattheson, in 1703. By this time there wasquestion of appointing a successor to Buxtehude, who was now nearing the age ofseventy and had spent over thirty years at the Marienkirche. The condition ofmarriage to his predecessor's daughter that he had faithfully fulfilled provedunattractive, however, to the young musicians of the newer generation, and thesuccession eventually passed to Johann Christian Schieferdecker, who marriedhis predecessor's surviving daughter, predeceased by four others, three monthsafter Buxtehude's death on 16th May 1707. Buxtehude l
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