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March 17th 2007
Performing the Organ Music of Dieterich Buxtehude (d. 1707)
A study day with Dr Geoffrey Webber
Venues: Gonville & Caius College, Magdalene College.
The Study Day will began by looking at problems associated with the
surviving sources of Buxtehude's organ music. How far can we trust them?
Which of the various modern editions should one follow? The master-class focussed on questions of interpretation as suggested by contemporary
performance practice, including the evidence of the sources themselves. The
final session explored the "Sonata" in the Yale manuscript E.B. 1688 in
both its transmitted version for organ, and its possible string origins as
suggested in a new edition by Geoffrey Webber.
Programme:
9.30am - registration. Caius College.
10.00-12.30 - Lord Colyton Hall, Caius College
Session I: Democratizing Buxtehude: the performer as editor
Sources and editions (bring your own copies....)
(Lunch - own arrangements)
2-4pm - Organ class, Magdalene College Chapel.
Session II: Executing Buxtehude: the performer as composer.
Suggested works: Praeludium ex D # (139), Praeludium ex A (153), Ein feste
Burg ist unser Gott (184), Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (188), Mensch,
willt du leben seliglich (206), Passacaglia (161), Canzona ex D (168)
Tea - Caius College.
4.30-6pm - Lord Colyton Hall, and Chapel, Caius College.
Session III: Decoding Buxtehude: the performer as detective
The Yale 'Sonata': harpsichord/gamba(s)/violin/organ?
Geoffrey Webber was Organ Scholar at New College Oxford, where he studied
organ with Nicholas Danby and Gillian Weir. He completed a doctorate on the
transmission of Italian idioms in North German church and organ music in the
seventeenth century, and was appointed Precentor and Director of Studies in
Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge in 1989. He is the author of
North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (OUP, 1996) and co-editor
with Nicholas Thistlethwaite of The Cambridge Companion to the Organ (CUP,
1998). His plans for the Buxtehude anniversary year include two articles for
Early Music magazine and a Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3.
Full price: £30.
Students (full-time) £10.
Applications to
CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY OF ORGAN STUDIES
140 OXFORD ROAD
CAMBRIDGE CB4 3PL
email: andrewpj@waitrose.com
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