Dieterich Buxtehude

Dieterich Buxtehude (Dietrich, Diderich) (ca. 1637–May 9, 1707) was an organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and church services. He wrote in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. The organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck for most of his life, Buxtehude is considered today to be the leading German composer in the time between Bach and Heinrich Schütz.

Images

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  The only surviving portrait of Buxtehude, from "Häusliche Musikszene" by Johannes Voorhout (1674).
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  A portrait of another person in the same Voorhout painting; this once was thought to be Buxtehude, but recent research in Kerala J. Snyder's book has denied this assertion. Most likely, the person portrayed was Johann Philipp Förtsch, an opera singer of Hamburg, friend of Reincken.
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  BuxWV 75, Ad pedes, Bass solo

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  BuxWV 75, Rhythmic Similarities

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  Title Page of Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75
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  Ostinato pattern from Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
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  Grabtafel Dieterich Buxtehude St. Marien Lübeck

Music

Cantatas

• Cantate Domino, BuxWV 12 (listen)
• Was frag ich nach der Welt, BuxWV 104 (listen)
• "Wo ist doch mein freund geblieben" (listen)

Organ music

• "Ciaccona in E moll" (listen)