Dieterich Buxtehude - Southeast

Question

This composer began a cycle of cantatas with one called “Ad Pedes” or “To the feet.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this composer of Membra Jesu nostri who organized the Abendmusik (“AH-bint-moo-zeek”) concerts while serving as music director of Lübeck’s Marienkirche.

ANSWER: Dieterich Buxtehude [or Diderich Hansen Buxtehude]

[10e] Buxtehude was a virtuoso on this instrument, also played by J. S. Bach. This keyboard instrument produces sound by pushing air through pipes.

ANSWER: organ [or pipe organ]

[10m] Carlos Chávez orchestrated Buxtehude’s E minor organ piece in this genre. Bach’s second violin partita ends with a lengthy movement widely performed on its own in this genre, which like passacaglias are built on ground bass themes.

ANSWER: chaconne (“shah-KUN”) [or ciaccona or chacona or chacony]

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