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Christian Flor
Christian Flor (162628 September 1697) was a German composer and organist. Working at churches in Rendsburg and Lüneburg, he was widely known for vocal and organ compositions. He composed one of the earliest Passion oratorios, in 1667. Life Born in Neukirchen, Ostholstein, Flor came from a family of pastors spread throughout Schleswig-Holstein and was born as the son of the pastor Otto Flor and his wife Catharina. He probably received his musical education in Hamburg and Lübeck, studying with Heinrich Scheidemann and Franz Tunder. From 1652 he was organist at in Rendsburg. In 1653 he married Margarethe Hudemann, the widow of his predecessor. Their daughter Catharina was baptised in Rendsburg on 24 October 1653. At the latest in 1654, he became organist at in Lüneburg. After the death of his first wife he married Anna Dorothea Lange (1641–1685). From 1676 until his death, he was (as a predecessor of Georg Böhm) also organist at St. Johannis, the major church in Lüneb ...
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Neukirchen, Ostholstein
Neukirchen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Ostholstein {{Ostholstein-geo-stub ...
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Johann Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer's cousin. Walther was most well known as the compiler of the ''Musicalisches Lexicon'' (Leipzig, 1732), an enormous dictionary of music and musicians. Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical information about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. In all, the ''Musicalisches Lexicon'' defines more than 3,000 musical terms; Walther evidently drew on more than 250 separate sources in compiling it, including theoretical treatises of the early Baroque and Renaissance. The single most important source for the work was the writings of Johann Mattheson, who is referenced more t ...
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17th-century German Composers
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily ...
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Organists And Composers In The North German Tradition
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists. In addition, an organist may accompany congregational hymn-singing and play liturgical music. Classical and church organists The majority of organists, amateur and professional, are principally involved in church music, playing in churches and cathedrals. The pipe organ still plays a large part in the leading of traditional western Christian worship, with roles including the accompaniment of hymns, choral anthems and other parts of the worship. The degree to which the organ is involved varies depending on the church and denomination. It also may depend on the standard of the organist. In more provincial settings, organists may be more accurately described as pianists obliged to play the organ for worship services; nevertheless, some churches are fortunate to have trained organists capable o ...
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Friedhelm Flamme
Friedhelm Flamme (born 1963) is a German organist, choral director, musicologist, music educator. Life and achievements Born in Volkmarsen, Flamme who has been associated with church music since his youth, was already active as an organist when he was young. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the University of Paderborn school music, church music, organ (concert exam with distinction with ), conducting, composition, educational science and theology. Further studies led him to Guy Bovet, Ewald Kooiman, Jon Laukvik, Thierry Mechler, , Harald Vogel, Herbert Wulf and Wolfgang Zehrer. Since 1991, he has been working as a church and school musician in the and at the in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover. From 1991 to 2004, he was cantor at the Laurentiuskirche Dassel, from 1991 to 2007 he was the church music supervisor in the Göttingen North district. In 1993, he was appointed Kirchenmusikdirektor. Since 2002, he has been a lecturer at the Detmold U ...
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. Most are nonprofit organizations and an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by schola ... in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Press is a department of the University of Cambridge and is both an academic and educational publisher. It became part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, following a merger with Cambridge Assessment in 2021. With a global sales presence, publishing hubs, and offices in more than 40 Country, countries, it publishes over 50,000 titles by authors from over 100 countries. Its publishing includes more than 380 academic journals, monographs, reference works, school and uni ...
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Challenge Records (1994)
: ''To be distinguished from Challenge Records (1920s) and Challenge Records (1950s)'' Challenge Records is a record company and label in the Netherlands founded by Hein van de Geyn, Anne de Jong, and Joost Leijen in 1994. Its catalogue includes music by Nat Adderley, Paul Bollenback, Bob Brookmeyer, Keith Ingham, Rick Margitza, Enrico Pieranunzi, Yitzhak Yedid, Clark Terry, Jasper van 't Hof, Eric Ineke and Eric Vloeimans. Imprints Challenge's labels include Buzz, Between The Lines, Challenge Classics, Challenge Jazz Records, V-Flow, Double Moon (producer Volker Dueck), Challenge Jazz (producer Hein van de Geyn), Challenge Legacy, Retrieval (restorations by John R. T. Davies), Daybreak (producer Fred Dubiez), Timeless Jazz Legacy, A Records, JJ-Tracks, PineHill, Van Dyck Records, Supertracks Records, Drukplaten, Fineline, SunnyMoon Records, and Antoine Marchand." ...
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Die Musik In Geschichte Und Gegenwart
''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference to related subjects. It has appeared in two self-contained printed editions and a continuously updated and expanding digital edition, titled ''MGG Online''. Created by Karl Vötterle, the founder of Bärenreiter-Verlag, and Friedrich Blume, professor of musicology at Kiel University, the first edition was published by Bärenreiter-Verlag in Kassel from 1949 through 1986, comprising a total of 17 volumes (''MGG1''; numbered in columns) and reprinted in paperback in 1989. As early as 1989, its new editor Ludwig Finscher began planning a second, revised edition with 29 volumes, which were published from 1994 through 2008 in cooperation with the publisher J.B. Metzler (''MGG2''; with a topical part in 9 volumes and a persons part in 17 volumes, ...
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Challenge Classics
: ''To be distinguished from Challenge Records (1920s) and Challenge Records (1950s)'' Challenge Records is a record company and label in the Netherlands founded by Hein van de Geyn, Anne de Jong, and Joost Leijen in 1994. Its catalogue includes music by Nat Adderley, Paul Bollenback, Bob Brookmeyer, Keith Ingham, Rick Margitza, Enrico Pieranunzi, Yitzhak Yedid, Clark Terry, Jasper van 't Hof, Eric Ineke and Eric Vloeimans. Imprints Challenge's labels include Buzz, Between The Lines, Challenge Classics, Challenge Jazz Records, V-Flow, Double Moon (producer Volker Dueck), Challenge Jazz (producer Hein van de Geyn), Challenge Legacy, Retrieval (restorations by John R. T. Davies), Daybreak (producer Fred Dubiez), Timeless Jazz Legacy, A Records, JJ-Tracks, PineHill, Van Dyck Records, Supertracks Records, Drukplaten, Fineline, SunnyMoon Records, and Antoine Marchand. ...
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Wolfgang Baumgratz
Wolfgang Baumgratz (born 10 October 1948) is a German organist and academic teacher. He is the organist of the Bremer Dom, and professor of organ at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. He has toured in Europe as a concert organist and made recordings. He was president of the international association Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde from 1998 to 2013. Life Born in Meersburg, Baumgratz received his musical training in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau, where he studied with Ludwig Doerr. He passed the A-examination in Protestant church music in 1976 and worked as cantor at the Johanneskirche in Merzhausen from 1971 to 1976. He completed two years of organ studies on a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), studying in Amsterdam with Albert de Klerk. In 1978, he completed the soloist's examination in organ. In 1979, Baumgratz was appointed as successor of Zsigmond Szathmáry as organist at the Bremer Dom. One year later he received an organ teacher ...
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Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" (originally written in the German language with the title ) is one of the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformers, Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and 1529.John D. Julian, Julian, John, ed., ''A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations'', Second revised edition, 2 vols., n.p., 1907, reprint, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957, 1:322–25 It has been translated into English at least seventy times and also into many other languages. The words are mostly original, although the first line paraphrases that of Psalm 46.Marilyn Kay Stulken, ''Hymnal Companion to the Lutheran Book of Worship'' (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981), 307–08, nos. 228–229. History "A Mighty Fortress" is one of the best known hymns of the Lutheran tradition, and among Protestantism, Protestants more generally. I ...
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Early Music (journal)
''Early Music'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music. It was established in 1973 and is published quarterly by Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books .... The co-editors are Helen Deeming, Alan Howard and Stephen Rose. History ''Early Music''s founder was John Mansfield Thomson, an eminent New Zealand musicologist who worked for many decades in London, where he was a leading figure at the beginning of the early music revival. Through Baroque Concerts, his concert promotion agency, he brought major performers of early music to London in the late 1960s. Among the musicians were Gustav Scheck (flute and treble recorder) and Walter Bergmann (basso continuo and harpsichord) whose concert at the Purcell Room in Ja ...
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