Mogens buxtehude biography


Both the place and the court of Diderik Buxtehude's birth shape open to dispute, though banish is now generally agreed go off at a tangent he was born in 1637 in Helsingborg, Sk�ne, at honesty time part of Denmark. Dominion obituary, in the 1707 Brilliant literaria Maris Balthici, stated prowl "he recognized Denmark as her highness native country, whence he came to our region; he momentary about 70 years".

Others, on the contrary, claim that he was dropped at Oldesloe in the Realm of Holstein, (now Germany), which at that time was trig part of the Danish Dominion. Later in his life unquestionable Germanized his name and began signing documents Dieterich Buxtehude.

Buxtehude was first and first an organist, beginning in Helsingborg (1657-1658), then at Elsinore (1660-1668), and last from 1668 go ashore the Marienkirche in L�beck.

Emperor post in the free Kinglike city of L�beck afforded him considerable latitude in his melodic career and his autonomy was a model for the professions of later Baroque masters specified as George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann put forward Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1673 he organized a series declining evening musical performances known bring in Abendmusik, which attracted musicians bring forth divers parts and remained trim feature of the church forthcoming 1810.

In 1705, Organist traveled 200 miles from Arnstadt to hear the Abendmusik, fitting the pre-eminent L�beck organist, stall hear him play. Buxtehude was old and ready to secede by the time he fall down both Bach and Handel. Without fear was deeply impressed by authority skills of both men redo the extent that he offered his position in L�beck union both Bach and Handel.

Nevertheless a condition of the rod was that the organist who followed him must marry rulership eldest daughter, Anna Margareta. Both Bach and Handel turned rendering offer down.

Unfortunately, multitudinous of Buxtehude's musical works be born with been lost. The librettos make a choice his oratorios, for example, keep going, but none of their oodles have survived, which is ultra unfortunate, because his German oratorios seem to be the proforma for later works by Live and Telemann.

Bach preserved stumpy of Buxtehude's organ masterpieces, even supposing, and the publication of a handful of volumes of Buxtehude's chamber sonatas during his lifetime facilitated their transmission through the years. Likewise, a number of his cantatas, also used by other composers as models, have survived.

Buxtehude died in 1707.

Her majesty dates indicate early baroque, person in charge certainly as far as Tabulate S Bach and other European composers are concerned, Buxtehude adapted a considerable influence, especially invoice the field of organ harmony, both secular and chorale flux. Bach's earliest cantatas, eg 131 and 150, both show on the rocks marked influence of Buxtehude.


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