Release Date: 04 January 2005
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313219520
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BUXTEHUDE
Description
Dietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)Organ Works Volume 4The imperial free city of L??beck, a member of theHanseatic League, had held a position second only toHamburg. The development of the latter during theseventeenth century was very considerable. L??beck, onthe other hand, fared less well, but remained,nevertheless, an important commercial centre. Much ofthe musical life of the city centred on the Marienkirche,the church of the city council, where Franz Tunder hadbeen appointed organist in 1641. Tunder, a composerable to further the synthesis of the Lutheran with theItalian influences exemplified in the music of HeinrichSch??tz, established weekly Thursday organ recitals thatgrew into more elaborate concerts, with instrumentalplayers from among the seven official town musiciansand others, and with singers.Dietrich Buxtehude, who identified himself asDanish, was seemingly born in Oldesloe about the year1637, the son of an organist and schoolmaster. His fathermoved briefly from Oldesloe, in the Duchy of Holstein,to Helsingborg as organist at the Mariekirke there andsoon after to the Danish city of Helsing?©r, Hamlet'sElsinore, as organist at the St Olai Kirke, a position heheld for some thirty years, until his retirement in 1671.Buxtehude was taught by his father and from 1657 or1658 until 1660 was organist at the Mariekirke inHelsingborg, a city separated from Helsing?©r by anarrow stretch of water. His next appointment was at theMariekirke in the latter city. In 1668 he was electedorganist at the Marienkirche in L??beck, where hesucceeded Franz Tunder, who had died the previousyear, following custom by marrying Tunder's youngerdaughter. Tunder's elder daughter's security had alreadybeen assured by her marriage to Samuel Franck, Cantorof the Marienkirche and the Catherineum Lateinschule,the choir-school that provided singers for the services ofthe Marienkirche.At the Marienkirche in L??beck Buxtehude madesome changes in the musical traditions of the church,establishing a series of Abendmusik concerts given nowon five Sunday afternoons in the year, events thatattracted wide interest. As an organist Buxtehuderepresented the height of North German keyboardtraditions, exercising a decisive influence over thefollowing generation, notably on Johann SebastianBach, who undertook the long journey from Arnstadt toL??beck to hear him play, outstaying his leave, to thedissatisfaction of his employers. Handel too visitedL??beck in 1703, with his Hamburg friend and colleagueMattheson. By this time there was a question ofappointing a successor to Buxtehude, who was nearlyseventy and had spent over thirty years at theMarienkirche. The condition of marriage to hispredecessor's daughter that Buxtehude had faithfullyfulfilled proved unattractive, however, to the youngmusicians of the newer generation and the successioneventually passed to Johann Christian Schieferdecker,who married Buxtehude's surviving daughter,predeceased by four others, three months afterBuxtehude
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
