Buxtehude’s chorale prelude presents the chorale in the top voice, where it is gracefully and not too elaborately ornamented. Short interludes seperate the melodic phrases from each other. The interlude in bars 14 and...
“Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV 208” is a quite prayer. I made two recordings. I choose the sample set of the Van Dam organ (1832) in the Church of Our Lady in...
The chorale prelude Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott BuxWV 200 was transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It is the more intimate of the two preludes from Buxtehude...
The chorale prelude Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott was transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. I made two versions. In one the left hand is notated with the...
A choral prelude by Buxtehude, found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Buxtehude’s organ music does not really classify as “lesser known organ music”, the focus of this website....
Dietrich [Diderik Hansen] Buxtehude (1637/39 – 1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer. For the last forty years of his life he worked in Lübeck, where he was organist at the large Mariairche. Buxtehude...
