(Yo-han A’-dam Rin’-ken) 1623–1722 Netherlandish-German composer Reincken studied the organ with Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595–1663) at St Catharine’s, Hamburg, becoming his assistant then successor. Reincken was both teacher and virtuoso organist. Many musicians travelled to hear him play, including Georg Böhm (1661–1733), Buxtehude and J. S. Bach. In 1720 Bach himself played on the organ of St Catharine’s before ...
a Lutheran organist-composer who studied with members of the Bach family before becoming organist at Lüneburg. At an early age he travelled to Hamburg, where he encountered Johann Adam Reincken (1623–1722), one of the most influential North German organists. Böhm contributed to the principal forms popular with the organists of this region, notably the toccata and the organ chorale ...
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Johann Christoph. The move to Lüneburg exposed Bach to many new cultural experiences. He travelled several times to Hamburg to hear the famous organist of St Catharine’s, Johann Adam Reincken (1623–1722), and he encountered French taste, which at the time was considered by many to be the height of refinement. The Ritterakademie, a school for sons of noblemen ...
interest in the splendid new organs being built at this time: he knew Gottfried Silbermann, and is thought to have travelled when a young man to Hamburg to hear Reincken play and to Lübeck to hear Buxtehude play. Styles & Forms | Early Baroque | Classical Arts & Culture | Violin Makers | Early Baroque | Classical ...
were experimenting with new techniques in their aim to introduce an element of extravagant display into their violin writing. Later, composer-performers like Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) on the harpsichord, Reincken and J. S. Bach on the organ, and Corelli, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Locatelli and Leclair on the violin, developed the virtuoso content of their music to ...
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