Gerhardus Havingha: Ouverture for Harpsichord

Monumenta Musica Neerlandica

Gerhardus Havingha (1696-1753), was a Dutch composer and organist, who lived and worked in Alkmaar.
He wrote a lot of chamber music, but everything is lost, excluding a set of 8 keyboard suites.
He had to play the organ and carillon and was leader of the collegium musicum; the usual stuff.
An other composer: Lustig (see my video with his promptement), didn't like his music very much and said it was good enough to feed the rats.
Havingha was a great promotor of the equal temperament, while for example Lustig and Blankenburg, still favoured a non equal temperament. Most Dutch organs were turned into this equal tuning system.
ernst stolz
harpsichord (Kalsbeek after Blanchet)
(NB, the stick doesn't belong to it!)

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• harpsichord
• dutch
• music
• keyboardmusic
• klavecimbel
• havingha
• suite
• ouverture

[venatorivs]

Beste Ernst,

Heb je dit stuk ooit op de piano gespeeld? Komt het dan ook zo tot zijn recht als op de klavecimbel?

M.v.g. M.

[ernststolz]

Nee ik heb dit niet op piano gespeeld. zou in principe wel kunnen natuurlijk.....

[venatorivs]

@ernststolz

Kan ik de bladmuziek hiervan ergens krijgen?

Gr. Merijn

[ernststolz]

even informeren bij Saul B Groen

[mrAltan9]

Excellent = playing, music and the instrument also.

[ernststolz]

I am glad you like it, thanks!

[zimnaya]

Beautiful music, beautifully played by a handsome man.  What more could be desired?

[ernststolz]

Danke, das ist wirklich eine große Ehre!

[drisspissdriss]

Dear Ernst,

there is a reason why you are the only person on Youtube to whose videos I subscribe to.  Wonderful music, congenially played.

Haartelijke groeten van Duitsland

gernot

[Geco7777777]

Hai Bebjuda

Sorry for the dutch, but Ernst said that the tuning of this instrument is (and the piece is played in) Werckmeister III

But that he often uses Kirnberger as well