The great Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude ( born in what is present-day Sweden ) became organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck in 1668 and remained at the post until at least 1703.

Buxtehude, along with Heinrich Schütz, is considered today to be one of the most important German composers of the mid-Baroque.

He is thought to have been born with the name Diderich Buxtehude.

Several compositions by him survive, and he is also notable today for his copies of numerous keyboard works by Georg Böhm, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Dieterich Buxtehude, and other important masters.

Johannes Voorhout: Domestic Music Scene ( the man at the harpsichord is almost certainly Reincken, on his left most probably Dieterich Buxtehude playing the viola da gamba, and on his right, below the harpsichord, possibly Johann Theile ).

Buxtehude is a steadily growing medium-sized town and the second largest in the district of Stade.

Buxtehude is home to several large businesses and numerous smaller ones and retailers.

By now " Buxtehude " is self-governing advancing to a trading town.

Besides Stade, Buxtehude is the only crossover over the Elbe river.

* In 1958 Buxtehude is decided to be in charge of reconstructing much of Hamburg after the war and thus is heavily funded with government money.

Buxtehude is known as " The Fairytale Capital " of the world.

It is always held on the Christian holiday of Pentacost ( German: Pfingsten ) exactly 50 days after Easter close to Buxtehude.

Vinum is the motto for the annual celebration of wine in old town Buxtehude.

Buxtehude is served by the Hamburg S-Bahn with the stations Buxtehude and Neukloster ; and by the Bundesstraße 73, a national highway.

Also astonishing is an album of pre-Bach sacred songs, featuring music of Schütz, Telemann, Buxtehude, and other less well-known composers.

That is to say, they contain a free, rhapsodic ( though restrained ) opening section that foreshadows the stylus phantasticus style of German composers later in the century ( notably Dieterich Buxtehude ), followed by an imitative, fugal section that strictly adheres to traditional contrapuntal rules.

His surviving output suggests a marked preference for the chorale fantasia style, though he is also known for chorale versets, such as his setting of Jesus Christus unser Heiland, notable in particular for the opening pedal flourish ( probably the earliest surviving example of an opening pedal solo in an organ work ), a technique that was to be more fully exploited by Dietrich Buxtehude.

The region is situated downstream from Hamburg on the southwestern riverside of the Elbe around the towns of Stade, Buxtehude, Jork and the Samtgemeinde of Lühe.

The opening of the piece, which consists of the ostinato stated in the pedal with no accompaniment from the manuals, is slightly more unusual, although this idea also occurs elsewhere, and may even have been used by Buxtehude.

* Lower Saxony incorporates 9 neighboring villages into the town in 1972 changing the structure of Buxtehude and creating a cluster of more than 30, 000 inhabitants.

And thus people claim there actually does not exist a town by the name of Buxtehude.

Buxtehude enjoys a good reputation as a warm, visitor-friendly town preserving its cultural and regional heritage without denying the future.

While Dieterich Buxtehude was a significant composer of such works, it was largely up to the next generation to undertake cantata cycles on texts for the entire church year.

A memorial sign on the wall of the Buxtehude House in Helsingør.

He was one of the most important German composers of the 17th century, a friend of Dieterich Buxtehude and a major influence on Johann Sebastian Bach, however, very few works of his survive to this day.

Since 1881 Buxtehude has had its own railroad station on the R50 line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven.

Since 1928 there has also been a second railroad line crossing Buxtehude, the EVB, ( Eisenbahn-und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser, Zeven ) between Hamburg's outermost district and Bremerhaven on the coast of the North Sea.

In 1950 his first child, son Clemens, was born and he wrote and illustrated his second book, Der Wettlauf zwischen Hase und Igel auf der Buxtehuder Heide ( The race between the hare and the hedgehog on the Buxtehude Heath ), for the birthday of a little girl called Friederike Gutsche.

* Buxtehude, Germany

In his lifetime he was heralded as one of the best organists in Germany ; he knew Dieterich Buxtehude closely and influenced Vincent Lübeck and Johann Sebastian Bach.

He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important forerunner of Dieterich Buxtehude and J. S.

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck ( born October 10, 1905, Hochneukirchen, Lower Austria, Austria – November 22, 1963, Buxtehude, Lower Saxony, Germany ) was an internist and held the title of Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

The North German Praeludium ( an important form consisting of alternating sections of free material written in the largely misunderstood stylus phantasticus and fugal material ) reached its zenith in Dieterich Buxtehude, informed by Matthias Weckmann and Heinrich Scheidemann ( influenced most strongly by Jan Peeterszoon Sweelinck and by the Italian school transported to North Germany by Heinrich Schütz and Samuel Scheidt ).

Böhm may have also heard Vincent Lübeck in the nearby Stade, or possibly even Dieterich Buxtehude in Lübeck, which was also close.

Buxtehude becomes part of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, newly upgraded to imperial immediacy it became one of the many successor states of the Duchy of Saxony.

Nevertheless in religious respect, Buxtehude remained a part of the Diocese of Verden until Catholic affinity faded in the Reformation with that diocese remaining vacant since 1644.

Nicolaus Rohlfs was an 18th century German mathematics teacher ( arithmeticus ) in Buxtehude and Hamburg who wrote astronomical calendars, a book about gardening, and other treatises that were continued by Matthias Rohlfs.

Among his students were Johann Adam Reincken, his successor at the St. Catharine Church in Hamburg and Dieterich Buxtehude.

Much living space in Hamburg was bombed out and people flee to the suburbs and exurbs such as Buxtehude.

Buxtehude can as well be used as a hub for tours to the nearby cities of Hamburg and Bremen.

The only surviving portrait of Buxtehude, from A musical party by Johannes Voorhout ( 1674 ).

Preludes by northern German composers such as Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ) and Nikolaus Bruhns ( c. 1665 – 1697 ) combined sections of free improvised passages with parts in strict contrapuntal writing ( usually brief fugues ).

The term has also been applied since the 17th century to mean " little Canzona " and has been used by such composers as Dieterich Buxtehude to apply to smaller Canzona-type keyboard works ( often, like the Canzona, in fugue form and style ).

He won two Danish Grammy Awards for his recordings of the chamber music and vocal music of Dieterich Buxtehude ( 1994 and 1997 ).