Dieterich Buxtehude, Organist in LübeckThis book is a new edition of the most comprehensive life-and-works study of the great Baroque-era organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707), released to celebrate the tercentenary of the composer's death. Originally published in 1987 and long out of print, this book is considered by most musicologists to be the definitive biography. It also includes close description of Buxtehude's compositional output, from trio sonatas to the famed Abendmusiken: Buxtehude's yearly oratorio presentations. The young J. S. Bach traveled to Lübeck on foot in 1705 to learn as much as he could from the great master of the organ and of Lutheran church music. The revised edition contains new information on the organs that Buxtehude played in Scandinavia and Lübeck, excerpts from the newly available account books from St. Mary's in Lübeck, a discussion of newly discovered sources, including one written by J. S. Bach, an evaluation of recent scholarship on Buxtehude, and an extensive bibliography. Written for both the casual reader and the serious scholar. The accompanying music CD (this material is now provided on a companion website) provides examples of all genres discussed in the book -- vocal works, a trio sonata, harpsichord music, and organ music newly recorded on the North German meantone organ in Gothenburg, Sweden, by a noted specialist in this repertoire, Hans Davidsson, who is professor of organ at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the founder of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt). |
Contents
Denmark | 3 |
Child in Helsingør | 10 |
The Unknown Years of Apprenticeship | 22 |
Organist in Helsingør | 31 |
The City | 37 |
Buxtehudes Marriage | 45 |
Musical Life in Lübeck | 51 |
St Marys Church | 73 |
Sonatas | 280 |
Buxtehudes Sonatas as Examples of the Stylus phantasticus | 290 |
Sonatas in Manuscript | 296 |
The Sources of Buxtehudes Music | 307 |
The Performance of Buxtehudes Music | 360 |
Solo Voices | 366 |
Basso continuo | 377 |
Legato as a Special Effect | 385 |
Liturgy and Hymns 87 | 87 |
Musical Repertory | 93 |
Franz Tunder | 102 |
Stockholm | 120 |
Colleagues in Other Cities | 126 |
Buxtehude the Man | 132 |
Vocal Music | 139 |
Buxtehude and Pietism | 148 |
Buxtehudes Cantatas | 198 |
Music for Connoisseurs and Ordinary Citizens | 204 |
Works of Learned Counterpoint | 212 |
Canon | 218 |
Tempo and Dynamics | 393 |
The Compositions of Dieterich Buxtehude | 401 |
The Writings of Dieterich Buxtehude | 436 |
Selected Texts from Archival Documents | 461 |
F Printed Sources | 482 |
Inventories of Music | 489 |
Chorale Melodies Set by Buxtehude | 496 |
Notes | 502 |
Bibliography | 513 |
Index | 541 |
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