Buxtehude: Organ Music, Vol. 3

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Release Date: 09 January 2003

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313599127

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BUXTEHUDE

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Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)Organ Music Volume 3The imperial free city of L??beck, a member of the HanseaticLeague, had held a position second only to Hamburg. The development of thelatter during the seventeenth century was very considerable. L??beck, on theother hand, fared less well, but remained, nevertheless, an importantcommercial centre. Much of the musical life of the city centred on theMarienkirche, the church of the city council, where Franz Tunder had beenappointed organist in 1641. Tunder, a composer able to further the synthesis ofthe Lutheran with the Italian influences exemplified in the music of HeinrichSch??tz, established weekly Thursday organ recitals that grew into moreelaborate concerts, with instrumental players from among the seven officialtown musicians and others, and with singers.Dietrich Buxtehude, who identified himself as Danish, wasseemingly born in Oldesloe about the year 1637, the son of an organist andschoolmaster. His father moved briefly from Oldesloe, in the Duchy of Holstein,to Helsingborg as organist at the Mariekirke there and soon after to the Danishcity of Helsing?©r, Hamlet's Elsinore, as organist at the St Olai Kirke, aposition he held for some thirty years, until his retirement in 1671. Buxtehudewas taught by his father and from 1657 or 1658 until 1660 was organist at theMariekirke in Helsingborg, a city separated from Helsing?©r by a narrow stretchof water. His next appointment was at the Mariekirke in the latter city. In1668 he was elected organist at the Marienkirche in L??beck, where he succeededFranz Tunder, who had died the previous year, following custom by marryingTunder's younger daughter. Tunder's elder daughter's security had already beenassured by 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 inthe musical traditions of the church, establishing a series of Abendmusikconcerts given now on five Sunday afternoons in the year, events that attractedwide interest. 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 provedunattractive, however, to the young musicians of the newer generation and thesuccession eventually passed to Johann Christian Schieferdecker, who marriedBuxtehude's surviving daughter, predeceased by four others, three mont
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