570581bk Buxtehude US:557541bk Kelemen 3+3 15/7/08 9:38 PM Page 1 dissolving into homophony after a few entrances. It is manualiter works. Among these, his most original and Lars Ulrik Mortensen through the gigue, however, that the dance makes itself most justly famous works are praeludia and toccatas in the stylus Lars Ulrik Mortensen studied at the Royal Academy of Music in strongly felt in the other genres of Buxtehude’s keyboard phantasticus, which intermingles highly unpredictable free Copenhagen and with Trevor Pinnock in London. From 1988 to 1990 music. sections in virtuosic and idiomatic keyboard styles with he was harpsichordist with London Baroque and until 1993 with BUXTEHUDE Each of Buxtehude’s three variation sets is grounded in more structured fugal sections. Since organists naturally Collegium Musicum 90. He now works extensively as a soloist and dance rhythms. His most famous variation set, labelled prefer the pedaliter works, those for manuals alone are chamber-musician in Europe, the United States, Mexico, South Aria, but subtitled La Capricciosa, BuxWV 250, follows much less frequently performed, thus offering rich America, and Japan, performing regularly with distinguished Suites in A major and F major the Bergamasca, a dance that originated in Italy during the opportunities to adventurous harpsichordists. Even in these colleagues such as Emma Kirkby, John Holloway and Jaap ter Linden. sixteenth century and was widespread throughout Europe free works one can find elements of dance and variation. In Between 1996 and 1999 he was professor for harpsichord and La Capricciosa in the seventeenth. Its first half also appears as the the Prelude in G major, BuxWV 162, the second fugue is a performance practice at the Munich Musikhochschule, and he now Thuringian song Kraut und Rüben that J.S. Bach used in the variation, in gigue rhythm, of the first. Buxtehude may have teaches at numerous early music courses throughout the world. Until quodlibet concluding the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, conceived his canzonas as teaching pieces; they are all recently Lars Ulrik Mortensen was also active as a conductor in but it is unlikely that Buxtehude knew it in this form. Bach manualiter works, and students most often practised on the Sweden and Denmark, where his activities at the Royal Theatre in Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Harpsichord may have known La Capricciosa, on the other hand, since, clavichord or harpsichord. They are variously titled canzon, Copenhagen met with great critical acclaim, although he has now like his Goldberg Variations, it is a virtuoso showpiece canzonet, or fuga and consist either of a single fugue or of returned to work primarily with period instrument ensembles. Since consisting of 32 variations on an aria in G major. In La three related fugues, as in BuxWV 168, in the manner of the 1999 he has been artistic director of the Danish Baroque orchestra Capricciosa Buxtehude layers dance upon dance, changing variation canzona inherited from Frescobaldi and Froberger. Concerto Copenhagen and in 2004 succeeded Roy Goodman as the simple duple metre of the Bergamasca to that of a gigue Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, in his Abhandlung von der musical director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra. He has (Partite 9 and 19), a sarabande (Partita 25), and a minuet Fuge (1753), used the third fugue of BuxWV 168 as an recorded extensively for numerous labels, and his recording of Bach’s (Partite 29 and 30). illustration of a counter fugue, in which the answer moves Goldberg Variations was awarded the French Diapason d’Or. The Buxtehude’s free keyboard works, those independent of in contrary motion to the subject. series of Buxtehude recordings from the 1990s for the Danish Dacapo a preexisting melody or dance pattern, are mainly label has met with universal critical acclaim, and recordings of transmitted in manuscripts that include both pedaliter and Abridged from a note by Kerala Snyder, 1998 chamber music and cantatas by Buxtehude have won Danish Grammy awards, among other honours. In 2000 he was named Danish Musician of the Year for his recordings of harpsichord music by Buxtehude, which also received the Cannes Classical Award 2001. As a conductor his recordings include releases of harpsichord concertos by Bach and piano concertos by Haydn, in addition to symphonies by the Danish composers J.E.Hartmann, F.L.A.E.Kunzen and G.Gerson. Lars Ulrik Mortensen has received a number of prizes and distinctions, among them the Danish Music Critics’ Award in 1984 and in 2007 Denmark’s most prestigious music award, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. Get this free download from Classicsonline! Fischer: Musicalischer Parnassus: Terpsichore, Suite No. 7 Copy this Promotion Code Nax6vL5wiUVg and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/fisc7_main. Downloading Instructions C 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. M 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Y K 5 8.570581 6 8.570581 570581bk Buxtehude US:557541bk Kelemen 3+3 15/7/08 9:38 PM Page 2 Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707) Dietrich Buxtehude was most likely born in 1637 in the pastor of St Mary’s. concerts Abendmusiken and changed the time of their particular instruments: free works such as praeludia and Harpsichord Music • 3 Danish town of Helsingborg, now part of Sweden. His Buxtehude swore the oath of citizenship on 23rd July presentation to Sundays after vespers. In time these toccatas, many of them designated “pedaliter”, and thus for father Johannes (Hans), also an organist, had immigrated 1668, enabling him to marry Anna Margarethe Tunder, a concerts took place regularly on the last two Sundays after organ; settings of German chorales, most of them also to Denmark at an unknown time from Oldesloe in Holstein. daughter of his predecessor, on 3rd August, 1668. Of seven Trinity and the second, third and fourth Sundays of Advent requiring the pedal; and a distinctly secular repertoire Suite in A major, Aria: “La Capricciosa” in § Partita 16 0:34 In the year 1641 Johannes Buxtehude was employed as daughters born to the couple three died in infancy, a fourth each year. By 1678 he had introduced the practice of consisting of dance suites and variations, presumably for BuxWV243 8:19 G major, BuxWV250 28:23 ¶ Partita 17 0:30 the organist at St Mary’s Church, Helsingborg, and soon survived to early adulthood, and three remained in the presenting oratorios of his own composition in serial harpsichord. These boundaries are by no means rigid, 1 Allemande 3:05 ! Partita 1 1:18 • Partita 18 0:31 after that he moved across the Øresund to become organist household at the time of Buxtehude’s death. Godparents to fashion on these Sundays. He also directed performances however, and this series of recordings exploits such fluidity 2 Courante 1:36 @ Partita 2 1:18 ª Partita 19 0:36 of St Olai Church in Helsingør. The exact date of Dietrich’s the Buxtehude children came from the higher strata of of concerted music from the large organ during the regular by drawing from all three genres for its programmes. 3 Sarabande 1:55 # Partita 3 1:01 º Partita 20 1:17 birth is unknown, but at the time of his death on 9th May, Lübeck society. Buxtehude himself belonged to the fourth church services, although this activity, like the presentation Nearly all of Buxtehude’s suites and variations on 4 Gigue 1:43 $ Partita 4 0:46 ⁄ Partita 21 0:43 1707, he was said to be about seventy years old. social class, however, together with lesser wholesalers, of the Abendmusiken, lay outside his official duties to the secular tunes are preserved in a single Danish manuscript, now at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, which contains 5 Canzonetta in D minor, % Partita 5 0:46 ¤ Partita 22 0:41 The knowledge of Latin that Buxtehude displayed in retailers and brewers. In inviting his social superiors to church. later life indicates that he must have attended a Latin school serve as godparents, and in some cases naming his children By 1703 Buxtehude had served for 35 years as organist the history of the Ryge family reading in one direction and BuxWV168 4:30 ^ Partita 6 0:35 ‹ Partita 23 0:40 & Partita 7 0:30 › Partita 24 0:55 as a boy. Although he undoubtedly began his organ studies after them, Buxtehude was also cultivating their patronage of St Mary’s; he was about 66 years old and he was no a collection of keyboard music, mainly by Buxtehude, in Suite in F major, * Partita 8 0:56 fi Partita 25 1:53 with his father, further information concerning his teachers for his musical enterprises. doubt concerned about the future of his three unmarried the other. The musical portion was probably copied early is totally lacking. Other possible teachers in Denmark As organist of St Mary’s, Buxtehude’s chief respons- daughters, so he began to look for a successor who would in the eighteenth century. The fact that two of the suites BuxWV238 7:26 ( Partita 9 0:35 fl Partita 26 0:59 include Claus Dengel, organist at St Mary’s, Helsingør, ibility lay in playing the organ for the main morning and marry the eldest, now 28. The first prospective candidates attributed to Buxtehude in this manuscript were actually 6 Allemande 3:00 ) Partita 10 0:49 ‡ Partita 27 1:24 7 Courante 1:27 from 1650 to 1660, and the younger Johann Lorentz, the afternoon services on Sundays and feast days.