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CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY OF ORGAN STUDIES
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On Saturday, November 17th 2007 Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies presented a Study day on Buxtehude's organ music and its Italian influences.
Led by Christopher Stembridge in Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge. (By kind permission of the Master and Fellows)
10.30am registration and coffee
11am-1pm introductory lecture and recital.
While the most obvious Italian influence on Buxtehude's music is found in his vocal works, he was clearly conversant with the works of Frescobaldi and other Italian composers, as well as with those of German organists such as Hassler, Froberger and Kerll who studied in Italy. Buxtehude knew Weckmann, who, in turn, had known Froberger.
The question of tuning and temperament will be touched on; Buxtehude counted Werckmeister among his friends and the current vogue for assuming all North German organs remained in meantone at this period will be discussed.
Questions of transposition will be raised. (Was Praeludium f# (146) originally written in d?) Demonstration recital to include: Excerptsfrom Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali Buxtehude: Mit Fried und Freud, Contrapunctus I and Evolutio Gabrieli: Recercar Settimo & Ottavo Tono Buxtehude: Ciaccona e (160), Canzona d (168), Praeludim g (163), Toccata G (165) transposed to F
Own arrangements for lunch.
2.30-5.30pm Masterclass (with tea break) Suggested works: Frescobaldi esp. Fiori musicali, Froberger Toccatas, canzonas. Buxtehude: especially Manualiter works Canzona d (168), Praeludium g (163), Toccata G (165) Pedaliter: Praeludium in C (137), Praeludium d (140), Praeludium f# (146)
Christopher Stembridge, who contributed the chapter on Italy to the Cambridge Companion to the Organ, was statutory lecturer in music at University College Cork.
He moved to Italy where he taught at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena and Scuola S. Cecilia, Brescia. Recent work includes a guest professorship in harpsichord at the Gnesin Academy, Moscow. Apart from various master-classes in Italy and Germany he has this year been teaching, coaching and performing in Kyiv and Tallinn and Yerevan. His special field of interest is Italian keyboard music of the renaissance and early baroque. His articles on interpreting Frescobaldi appeared in the last two numbers of the Organ Year Book. He has edited the complete keyboard music of Mayone and de Macque and an edition in open score of the Fiori musicali.
He is currently preparing the new Bärenreiter edition of Frescobaldi (organ and keyboard music.) for which he was recently awarded the Noah Greenberg Prize by the American Musicological Society.
Christopher Stembridge will give a recital of works by Buxtehude in Clare College Chapel on Sunday November 18th at 5.30pm (this is separate from the CAOS event).
Full price for the day: £30.
Students £10.
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