This work’s dedicatee, the organist Gustaf Düben, eliminated coda sections in which biblical texts were combined with settings of the monk Arnulf of Leuven. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cycle of seven cantatas that meditate on different aspects of Jesus on the cross.
ANSWER: Membra Jesu Nostri [or Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima]
[10e] Membra Jesu Nostri was written by this Danish-born organist and composer of the Baroque period.
ANSWER: Dietrich Buxtehude [or Diderik Hansen Buxtehude]
[10m] Buxtehude worked as organist at Saint Mary’s Church in this north German city, where J. S. Bach walked to hear him play. This city’s musical guild structure inspired many later reforms in Hamburg.
ANSWER: Lübeck [or Lübeek; or Hanseatic City of Lübeck; or Hansestadt Lübeck]
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