Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
Domestic honors came to Parker thick & fast. All in a few years he was made choir director and organist at Trinity Church in Boston, Battell Professor of Music at Yale and later dean of its music school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled...
...unmistakably recognize the theme Bach had later expanded and used in his great Passacaglia in C Minor.* But few in the audience had ever heard more about Buxtehude than his odd name. Important as is his niche in the history of music, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a great organist whose works are rarely played in the concert hall...
...organist at St. Mary's in Liibeck, Dietrich Buxtehude held one of the best music posts in Germany. Listeners came from all over to hear his Abendmusiken, fertilely imagined concerts given on the five Sunday evenings before Christmas. For these concerts St. Mary's published the first program books in history...
...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...