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...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...
...director of the singing was Dr. A.T. Davison, Organist and Choir-Master...
Cesar Franck's great Symphony in D minor is to be performed at this week's Symphony concerts in Boston. Franck was born in Belgium in 1822, but spent most of his life in Paris, where he was for many years the organist in the church of Sainte-Clotilde. Devoutly sincere and excessively modest, he did not secure real fame until after his death in 1890, when, through the efforts of his pupils, who include the greatest of modern French composers, his works were really brought before the public. Franck represents a break from the Wagnerian romanticism and a return...