Buxtehude, Dieterich - "Allemande" from the Suite in E-Minor for Harp BuxWV 236 Harpe |
Compositeur : | Buxtehude, Dieterich (1637 - 1707) | ||
Instrumentation : | Harpe | ||
Genre : | Baroque | ||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 08 Mar 2013 Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637 to 1639) was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and in church services. He composed in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. Buxtehude, along with Heinrich Schütz, is considered today to be one of the most important German composers of the mid-Baroque. Little is known – or rather everything is contested – about the early life of Buxtehude. His date of birth and the nation of origin are both among the contested points. He is generally thought of as a German composer (the most important of the mid-Baroque period, and a powerful influence upon that late Baroque master, Johann Sebastian Bach). But Denmark also claims Buxtehude as one of its own. Whatever his nation or dates, his work belongs to the world and to the ages. Albert Schweitzer, in a classic early 20th century book about Bach, paid incidental tribute to Buxtehude, crediting him with the creation of large chorale preludes in which he “tears the melody in pieces, throws the fragments into the flood of a brilliant, animated fantasia, and sends them scudding along … according as his fancy suggests ….” Schweitzer calls this a “virtuosic style” using those words he assures us in their “good sense Although originally created for Harpsichord, I created this arrangement of the Allemande (Mvt. 1) of the Suite in E-Minor for Concert (Pedal) Harp. |
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