{"product_id":"825370-2","title":"D. Buxtehude - Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol. 2 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDietrich Buxtehude (c.1637-1707)Organ Music Vol. 2The imperial free city of Lübeck, a member of the Hanseatic League, had held a position second only to Hamburg. The development of the latter during the seventeenth century was very considerable. Lübeck, on the other hand, fared less well but remained, nevertheless, an important commercial centre. Much of the musical life of the city centred on the Marienkirche, the church of the city council, where Franz Tunder had been appointed organist in 1641. Tunder, a composer able to further the synthesis of the Lutheran with the Italian influences exemplified in the music of Heinrich Schütz, established weekly Thursday organ recitals that grew into more elaborate concerts, with instrumental players from among the seven official town musicians and others, and with singers.\tDietrich Buxtehude, who identified himself as Danish, was seemingly born in Oldesloe about the year 1637, the son of an organist and schoolmaster. His father moved briefly from Oldesloe, in the Duchy of Holstein, to Helsingborg as organist at the Mariekirke there and soon after to the Danish city of Helsingør, Hamlet’s Elsinore, as organist at the St Olai Kirke, a position he held for some thirty years, until his retirement in 1671. Buxtehude was taught by his father and from 1657 or 1658 until 1660 was organist at the Mariekirke in Helsingborg, a city separated from Helsingør by a narrow stretch of water. His next appointment was at the Mariekirke in the latter city. In 1668 he was elected organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, where he succeeded Franz Tunder, who had died the previous year, following custom by marrying Tunder’s younger daughter. Tunder’s elder daughter’s security had already been assured by her marriage to Samuel Franck, Cantor of the Marienkirche and the Catherineum Lateinschule, the choir-school that provided singers for the services of the Marienkirche.\tAt the Marienkirche in Lübeck Buxtehude made some changes in the musical traditions of the church, establishing a series of Abendmusik concerts given now on five Sunday afternoons in the year, events that attracted wide interest. As an organist Buxtehude represented the height of North German keyboard traditions, exercising a decisive influence over the following generation, notably on Johann Sebastian Bach, who undertook the long journey from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear him play, outstaying his leave, to the dissatisfaction of his employers. Handel too visited Lübeck in 1703, with his Hamburg friend and colleague Mattheson. By this time there was a question of appointing a successor to Buxtehude, who was nearly seventy and had spent over thirty years at the Marienkirche. The condition of marriage to his predecessor’s daughter that Buxtehude had faithfully fulfilled proved unattractive, however, to the young musicians of the newer generation and the succession eventually passed to Johann\u003cp\u003ePraeludium in C major, BuxWv137\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKomm heiliger Geist, BuxWv199\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVon Gott will ich nicht lassen, BuxWv221\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVater unser im Himmelreich, BuxWv207\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWv208\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToccata in G major, BuxWv164\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNun lob mein Seel, BuxWv212\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn dulci jubilo, BuxWv197\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFuga in C major, BuxWv174\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCiaccona in E minor, BuxWv160\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BuxWv75\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWv223\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraeludium in A minor, BuxWv153\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55730273714561,"sku":"825370","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/518d9SoOGIL._SL1500_cc95b251-56bf-4bec-9492-080d343ac85a.jpg?v=1779901219","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/825370-2","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}