Johann Christian Schieferdecker：Concert Overture No. 1 in A Minor / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
In Bach’s time, Buxtehude was a leading composer and organist of his generation. Serving as organist at St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck, he was searching for a successor. On August 17, 1703, Johann Mattheson and Georg Friedrich Handel were summoned from Hamburg to Lübeck and asked to take over. However, upon learning that marriage to Buxtehude’s daughter, who was nearly 30, was a condition for their succession, they lost interest and returned to Hamburg. Two years later, in November 1705, Johann Sebastian Bach traveled all the way from Arnstadt to hear Buxtehude play. He was so captivated by Buxtehude’s organ playing that he extended his vacation without permission and stayed in Lübeck, much to Buxtehude’s delight too. Despite this, he ultimately did not choose the position of organist there, for the same reasons as Mattheson and Handel. In the end, Buxtehude recommended Johann Christian Schieferdecker as his successor, and Schieferdecker was happily accepted by the authorities. This orchestral suite was composed by Johann Christian Schieferdecker, Buxtehude’s son-in-law. The end. #baruque #mattheson #handel #bach #buxtehude #schieferdecker #片山俊幸
