Johann Vexo sampler

This is the third in a series of “organ lessons” by Jan-Piet Knijff. The first (“Bruhns’s ‘Little’ E-minor”) and second (“Hindemith Sonata No. 2, second movement”) appeared in the January and April 2006 issues of The Diapason, respectively.

Sunday, July 30, 2000 was the 250th anniversary of the death
of Johann Sebastian Bach, and throughout Thüringen there were major
celebrations to honor the day.  In
Arnstadt, where in 1703 a very young Bach took on the post of organist at the
Neue Kirche (now known as the Bachkirche), there was a special religious
service that featured the organ and Bach's choral music sung by invited
choirs from other parts of Germany.

Ricercare (Ital.), “. . .

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