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Diderik Buxtehude
Suite in A Major
1. Allemande
2. Courante
3. Sarabande
4. Gigue

5. Courent Zimble. 8 Variations

Suite d’Amour D minor
6. Allemande d’amour
7. Courante
8. Sarabande d’Amour
9. Sarabande
10. Gigue

11. Aria: Rofilis. 3 Variations

Auf meinen lieben Gott
12. Theme
13. Double
14. Sarabande
15. Courante
16. Gigue

17. La Capricciosa. 32 Variations

Bonus tracks

Bernardo Pasquini
18. Bergamasca

Giovanni Battista Martini
19. Gavotte in F Major

Johann Sebastian Bach
Pastoral in F Major BWV 590
20. Prelude
21. Allemande
22. Aria
23. Gigue

Works for Harpsichord ©
We neither know with certainty the date nor the place of Diderik Buxtehude’s birth, but since a notice published shortly after his death on May 9, 1707, records that “he lived about 70 years”,
it is assumed that he was born about 1637. It is known that until 1638 his father was organist and school-teacher in Oldesloe (now Bad Oldesloe) in the Duchy of Holstein, hence this is now regarded as his likely place of birth. The Duchy of Holstein was at that time part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which accords with the information, also contained in the abovementioned
notice, that “he recognized Denmark as his native country, whence he came to our region (i.e. Germany)”. From Oldesloe his father went to Helsingborg, Sweden, as organist of St. Mary’s Church but soon after, in 1641 or 1642, he settled permanently on the other side of the sound of Helsingør (Elsinore) as organist of the Church of St. Olaf and it was presumably at the Latin School here that the son received his education.
In 1657 or 1658 Diderik was appointed to the post formerly held by his father as organist of the Church of St. Mary in Helsingborg, but in 1660 he too returned to Helsingør to become organist of the church of the German-speaking population there, the Marienkirche. In 1668 he succeeded Franz Tunder as organist of the Marienkirche in Lübeck, where he remained to his death in 1707. In 1703 he was visited by Handel and Mattheson, and in 1705 by J.S. Bach who, tradition tells us, walked all the way from Arnstadt to hear the old master play and stayed “about four times as long” as the four weeks’ leave he had requested.
Buxtehude’s works for harpsichord, which consist of dance suites and sets of variations, were found in the 1930s in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark, written down in tablature in an old family register belonging to the Ryge family, whose ancestors include J.Chr. Ryge (1688-1758), cantor of Roskilde School and Cathedral.

RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 2020

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 852

EAN: 5709499852002

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