Dieterich Buxtehude (1637 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish
organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose
works are typical of the North German organ school. As
a composer who worked in various vocal and instrumental
idioms, Buxtehude's style greatly influenced other
composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George
Frideric Handel. Buxtehude is considered one of the
most important composers of the 17th century. Although
more than 100 vocal compositions by Buxtehude survive,
very few of them w...(+)
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish
organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose
works are typical of the North German organ school. As
a composer who worked in various vocal and instrumental
idioms, Buxtehude's style greatly influenced other
composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George
Frideric Handel. Buxtehude is considered one of the
most important composers of the 17th century. Although
more than 100 vocal compositions by Buxtehude survive,
very few of them were included in the important German
manuscript collections of the period, and until the
early twentieth century, Buxtehude was regarded
primarily as a keyboard composer. His surviving church
music is praised for its high musical qualities rather
than its progressive elements.
The chaconne is a type of musical composition often
used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short
harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short
repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers a
compositional outline for variation, decoration,
figuration and melodic invention. In this it closely
resembles the passacaglia. It originates and was
particularly popular in the Baroque era; a large number
of Chaconnes exist from the 17th- and 18th-
centuries.
Psalm 113 is the 113th psalm of the Book of Psalms,
beginning in English in the King James Version: "Praise
ye the Lord, O ye servants of the Lord". The Book of
Psalms is part of the third section of the Hebrew
Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In
Latin, it is known as 'Laudate pueri Dominum. In the
slightly different numbering system used in the Greek
Septuagint version of the bible and in the Latin
Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 112.
The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic,
Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies. In
Judaism, it is the first of the six psalms comprising
the Hallel, a prayer of praise and thanksgiving recited
on Rosh Chodesh (the first day of the Hebrew month) and
Jewish holidays. In Catholicism, it is one of the
psalms included in the vespers service. It has been set
to music often, notably by Claudio Monteverdi in his
Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610.
Source: Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_D
ieterich_Buxtehude).
Although originally written for 2 Sopranos, 5 Viols
(TrTrATB), Violone and Continuo, I created this
Interpretation of Buxtehude's "Laudate, pueri Dominum"
(BuxWV 69) for Winds (Flute, Oboe & Bassoon) & Strings
(2 Violins, 2 Violas & 2 Cellos).
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