Buxtehude - Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein BuxWV 210 - Ton Koopman

Coci-Klapmeyer baroque organ in Altenbruch, Cuxhaven, Germany. Pitch: 478,6 Hz. Temperament: modified Werckmeister III. Organist: Ton Koopman.

[@nukepcr]

Wonderfully imaginative work! A 15 year old Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed this work to learn from the organ master, under the supervision of his older cousin, Johann Christian a local organist himself. The copy in organ tablature (a different notational system which was widespread among organists) was found in Sebastian's handwriting in 2005. This must have ignited an adulation in young Sebastian for Buxtehude, which later in his life culminated in him leaving his work to travel for a few months to hear Buxtehude in the North, to the chagrin of his employer.

[@Orgelix]

Buxtehude was a Genius!

[@bachkirche]

Bach must have agreed with you. This is one of the pieces copied out by the 13-year Bach that is in a recently discovered (2006) manuscript. Bach may have copied it while in the house of Georg Boehm, so it is quite an important discovery indeed.

[@tomloomis9523]

Wow! yes, he was undeniably so.

[@tomloomis9523]

“[Bach's] earliest extant autograph music manuscript testifies to the Ohrdruf schoolboy, thirteen-fourteen years old, copying down Dietrich Buxtehude’s longest, most complex, and technically very demanding chorale fantasia, `Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein,' BuxWV 210.”
Excerpt From
Bach's Musical Universe
by Christoph Wolff - p. 38
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