This composer plays the viola da gamba in the only surviving image of him, from Johannes Voorhout’s painting Elegant Company Making Music. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who likely used nonstandard tuning for an F-sharp minor piece written in the stylus fantasticus. This Danish-born German organist worked in Lübeck from 1668 to 1707.
ANSWER: Dieterich Buxtehude (“books-tuh-HOO-duh”) [or Diderich Hansen Buxtehude]
[10e] That F-sharp minor piece by Buxtehude is one of his nineteen works in this genre. Bach paired pieces in this genre with fugues in The Well-Tempered Clavier.
ANSWER: preludes
[10h] Buxtehude’s preludes are considered the crowning achievement of the North German organ school, which was founded by this composer. This master improviser and pedagogue was nicknamed the “Orpheus of Amsterdam.”
ANSWER: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (“SWAY-link”)
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