Release Date: 03 January 2001
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943454329
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BUXTEHUDE
Description
Dietrich Buxtehude(c.1637-1707) Organ Music Vol. 1The imperial free city of L??beck, a member of the Hanseatic League, hadheld a position second only to Hamburg. The development of the latter duringthe seventeenth century was very considerable. L??beck, on the other hand, faredless well, but remained, nevertheless, an important commercial center. Much ofthe musical life of the city centred on the Marienkirche, the church of thecity council, where Franz Tunder had been appointed organist in 1641. Tunder, acomposer able to further the synthesis of the Lutheran with the Italianinfluences exemplified in the music of Heinrich Sch??tz, established weeklyThursday organ recitals that grew into more elaborate concerts, withinstrumental players from among the seven official town musicians and others,and with singers.Dietrich Buxtehude, who identified himself as Danish, was seemingly bornin Oldesloe about the year 1637, the son of an organist and schoolmaster. Hisfather moved briefly from Oldesloe, in the Duchy of Holstein, to Helsingborg asorganist at the Mariekirke there and soon after to the Danish city ofHelsing?©r, Hamlet's Elsinore, as organist at the St Olai Kirke, a position heheld for some thirty years, until his retirement in 1671. Buxtehude was taughtby his father and from 1657 or 1658 until 1660 was organist at the Mariekirkein Helsingborg, a city separated from Helsing?©r by a narrow stretch of water.His next appointment was at the Mariekirke in the latter city. In 1668 he waselected organist at the Marienkirche in L??beck, where he succeeded FranzTunder, who had died the previous year, following custom by marrying Tunder'syounger daughter. Tunder's elder daughter's security had already been assuredby her marriage to Samuel Franck, Cantor of the Marienkirche and theCatherineum Lateinschule, the choir-school that provided singers for theservices of the Marienkirche.At the Marienkirche in L??beck Buxtehude made some changes in the musicaltraditions of the church, establishing a series of Abendmusik concertsgiven now on five Sunday afternoons in the year, events that attracted wideinterest. As an organist Buxtehude represented the height of North Germankeyboard traditions, exercising a decisive influence over the followinggeneration, notably on Johann Sebastian Bach, who undertook the long journeyfrom Arnstadt to L??beck to hear him play, outstaying his leave, to thedissatisfaction of his employers. Handel too visited L??beck in 1703, with hisHamburg friend and colleague Mattheson. By this time there was a question ofappointing a successor to Buxtehude, who was nearly seventy and had spent overthirty years at the Marienkirche. The condition of marriage to hispredecessor's daughter that Buxtehude had faithfully fulfilled proved unattractive,however, to the young musicians of the newer generation and the successioneventually passed to Johann Christian Schieferdecker, who married Buxtehude'ssurviving daughter, predeceased by four others, three months
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Various
Various
Lully
