Reincken: Complete Organ Works
Composer: Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722) Editor: Pieter Dirksen Instrumentation: Organ, Keyboard, Harpsichord / Piano Binding: ISMN: 9790004182291 Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches Pages: 84 Urtext / Critical Edition Look Inside! PDF Preview Description Though he came from the Netherlands, Johann Adam Reincken spent his adult life working in Hamburg. Along with Dieterich Buxtehude, he was regarded as the leading authority in organ playing and organ building in the last decades of the 17th century. But unlike his friend Buxtehude, next to whom he was buried in Lübeck, Reincken preferred improvisation to written composition, and the harpsichord to the organ. The result: only very few organ works by Reincken have been transmitted. At the center of the edition by Pieter Dirksen an expert in 17th-century music for keyboard instruments, who has recently become noted for his work on the Sweelinck Edition (EB 8741-44) are Reincken's two lengthy chorale fantasies, as was to