Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lubeck
Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lubeck (Eastman Studies in Music) Kerala J. Snyder,
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580462537
DDC: 780.92
Edition: Hardcover; 2007-05-15
Summary:
This 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, Dieterich Buxtehude: Organist in Lübeck 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 CD 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). Kerala J. Snyder is professor
emerita of musicology, Eastman School of Music (University of
Rochester).
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