Diderik Hansen Buxtehude (ca. 1637–May 9, 1707) was an organist and composer of the Baroque period. Not only the year, but also the country of his birth is uncertain and disputed. Since he spent his early years in Helsingborg in Skåne, at the time part of Denmark, he is by some considered a Danish composer. Others, however, claim that he was born at Oldesloe in the Duchy of Holstein, (now Germany), which at that time was a part of the Danish Monarchy. Later in his life he Germanized his name, his new name being Dietrich Buxtehude. Events February 3 - Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermats last theorem. ... Jump to: navigation, search May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... Events January 1 - John V is crowned King of Portugal March 26 - The Act of Union becomes law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. ... An organist is a musician who plays the organ, whether pipe or electronic. ... Jump to: navigation, search Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that... Helsingborg in Sweden Helsingborg is located in southernmost Sweden with a population of 87,000, and is the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, which together with immediate surroundings has 121,000 inhabitants. ...   SkÃ¥ne? (also known as Scania) is the southernmost historical province (landskap) of Sweden. ... Map of Germany showing Bad Oldesloe Bad Oldesloe is a town located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. ... Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of the word, see Holstein Holstein (Hol-shtayn) (Low Saxon: Holsteen, Danish: Holsten, Latin and historical English: Holsatia) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider, and the Schlei firth. ...

He was organist, first in Helsingborg (1657-1658), then at Elsinore (1660-1668), and last from 1668 at the Marienkirche in Lübeck. His post in the free Imperial city of Lübeck afforded him considerable latitude in his musical career and his autonomy was a model for the careers of later Baroque masters such as George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1705, Bach traveled 200 miles, on foot from Arnstadt to meet the pre-eminent Lübeck organist and hear him play. Helsingborg in Sweden Helsingborg is located in southernmost Sweden with a population of 87,000, and is the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, which together with immediate surroundings has 121,000 inhabitants. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by... Elsinore, also known by its Danish name Helsingør, is a city in Helsingør municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... // Events January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed. ... // Events January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed. ... There are several churches by this name, including: St. ... Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 214. ... Jump to: navigation, search George Frideric Handel (German Georg Friedrich Händel), (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German Baroque music composer who lived much of his life in Great Britain, a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. ... Johann Mattheson (September 28, 1681 – April 17, 1764) was a German composer, writer, lexicographer, and music theorist. ... Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681–June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it... Events Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... Arnstadt is a place in Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany. ...

Unfortunately, many of Buxtehude's musical works have been lost. The librettos for his oratorios, for example, survive, but none of their scores have survived, which is particularly unfortunate, because his German oratorios seem to be the model for later works by Bach and Telemann. Bach's collection of seminal works preserved some of Buxtehude's organ masterpieces, though, and the publication of two volumes of Buxtehude's chamber sonatas during his lifetime facilitated their transmission through the years. Additionally, a number of his cantatas, also used by other composers as models, have survived. A libretto is the body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, oratorio, or musical. ... Jump to: navigation, search An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. ... Sonata (From Latin and Italian sonare, to sound), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare, to sing), a piece sung. ... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ...

Buxtehude's surviving organ works are part of the standard organ repertoire and are heard at recitals and during worship services. Buxtehude is believed to have written in an early form of notation called organ tablature that is unrelated to modern notation. These manuscripts are all lost, leaving early transcriptions to standard notation as the best available sources. Orgab tablature can refer to any of a number of different schemes for noting music for the organ, mostly used prior to 1600 and mainly distinguished from each other as Italian, Spanish, etc. ...

Recordings

• Organ works, Harald Vogel
• Organ works, Peter Hurford
• Organ works, Rene Sarogin
• Cantatas, Jos van Immerseel
• Membra Jesu Nostri, Cycle of seven cantatas, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Fretwork, John Eliot Gardiner, Archiv Produktion 447 298-2
• Geistliche Kantaten (Sacred cantatas), Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel, Harmonia Mundi France HMC 901629
• Membra Jesu Nostri, Ton Koopman, Erato 2292-45295-2

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Media

D. Buxtehude's Variations on an Aria by Lully (Rofilis) ( info) Played with organ (MIDI file). Problems listening to the files? See media help.

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