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Donald Macleod explores Buxtehude鈥檚 new life in the city of 尝眉产别肠办 where he鈥檇 remain for the rest of his life.

Dietrich Buxtehude was a musical star in his own time, a legendary organist and composer who Johann Sebastian Bach walked almost 300 miles just to meet and learn from. Yet, the facts of Buxtehude鈥檚 own story are far from straightforward. Doubts remain over so many details in the composer鈥檚 life. We can鈥檛 even be sure when or where he was born, leading to three different countries claiming him as their own, and for a musician who perhaps above all was famed for his organ music, it is remarkable that not one single organ piece by him was published in his lifetime. In this Composer of the Week series, Donald Macleod pieces together what we do know about Buxtehude - the pre-eminent European composer before Bach, and finds a multifaceted personality and ground-breaking musician who worked his way across Europe via three different churches dedicated to St Mary, and who 鈥� once he settled in Lubeck - acted as a kind of centre of gravity for other musicians of his age.

In Wednesday鈥檚 programme, Donald explores Buxtehude鈥檚 life as he settles in the city of 尝眉产别肠办, where he is joined by his father and brother, and under rather strange circumstances, he starts a family of his own.

Canzona in C major, BuxWV 166
Walter Kraft, organ

Harpsichord suite in G major, BuxWV 240
Simone Stella, harpsichord

Mein Gemut erfreut sich, BuxWV 72
Barbara Schlick, soprano
Michael Chance, alto
Peter Kooij, bass
Hannover Knabenchor
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor

O frohliche Stunden, o herrlicher Tag, BuxWV 120
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor

Klag-Lied of seven strophes, "MuB der Tod denn auch ent- binden鈥�, BuxWV 76
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen, conductor

Wacht! Euch zum streit, 'Das j眉ngste Gericht' 鈥� Act II Aria 鈥淲eg mit allen irdischen Schatz鈥�
Musica Fiata
La Capella Ducale
Roland Wilson, conductor

Produced by Sam Phillips