Buxtehude - Fuga for Organ in C Major BuxWV174

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (C. 1637-1707)

Fuga for organ in C major BuxWV174

Performed by Robert Woolley

*TRIVIA! Did you know that Buxtehude was visited by Handel in 1703 and by Bach in 1705? Bach walked more than 200 miles to meet him and studied with him for several months in 1705 and 1706. Both Handel and Bach wanted to follow Buxtehude at St. Mary's, but neither one wanted to marry his daughter as that was a condition for the position.

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Music

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• bach
• handel
• mozart
• beethoven
• corelli
• sacred
• mass
• oratorio
• baroque
• fugue
• harpsichord
• sonata
• classical
• pachelbel
• canon

[joeyboi87]

absolute fantastic piece of buxtehude!!

[bigmandrel]

Thank you for cadencing here and there instead of the usual bullet-train-without- brakes approach. Thank you.

[silverdalesapphires]

@silverdalesapphires That's interesting! Williams isn't too convinced about BWV565, either, was it by Bach?, was it for organ? and was it originally in Dminor? Stephen Banfield, originally Professor of Music at Keele is of the same opinion. It could be a transcription of a lost work by Vivaldi as some passages don't ring true for Bach; the octave intro to the Toccata is also a bit suspect. I much prefer BWV538 and BWV564 to BWV565) (Esp Hurford or Marie-Claire Alain!)

[OceanderTethyseus]

@silverdalesapphires

you have an excellent memory for music and thank you for citing that work by Buxtehude.

in "The organ music of J.S. Bach" (searchable on Google Books), Peter Williams asserts that Bach's authorship of BWV577 is doubtful.

Williams makes several references to BUXWV 174 in his discussion of BWV 577.

[ellocosinnombre]

gracias por compartir

[KARTOFFELSALATATATAT]

this is 'á la gigue'?

[IvoniceAstrid]

beautiful music, thanks for posting .

[Terrdemarzielle]

@silverdalesapphires and also Bach's organ fugue in D major 'reeks' of Buxtehude :P

[silverdalesapphires]

Bach obviously 'absorbed' some of this for his own 'jig fugue'....(BWV577)....there are echoes of it everywhere.....a tribute from one master to another!

[jijiladodue11]

It is not Handel and Bach who wanted to follow Buxtehude, it is Handel and Johann Mattheson. Bach indeed walked more than 200 miles to meet him, but it was to study his way of composing and to listen to the Abendmusik, a series of musical performances organised by Buxtehude.

[bigmandrel]

The marriage story was true, but it was also true that it was then (and there) common to marry the daughter of the old master in whatever trade in question.