Location: Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, Marquand Chapel
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Description:
Bine Bryndorf will perform the following musical works on the Krigbaum organ in Marquand Chapel. Free and open to the public.
- Heinrich Scheidemann (1596–1663), Praeambulum in G Major, WV 73
- Heinrich Scheidemann, Dic nobis Maria, WV 51
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621), Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, SwWV 303
- Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637–1707), La Capricciosa, BuxWV 250
- Heinrich Scheidemann, Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore, WV 48
- Dieterich Buxtehude, Toccata in F, BuxWV 156
Bine Katrine Bryndorf(link is external) is Director of Music and Organist at Roskilde Cathedral 40 kilometers west of Copenhagen. She is also Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Malmö Musikhögskola in Southern Sweden.
After studies (MM Organ, Sacred Music and Harpsichord) in Vienna she taught for four years as assistant to Michael Radulescu. In 1994 she moved back to Denmark and for 24 years she served as Professor and later also as Head of Department at The Royal Danish Academy of Music. In 2017 she chose to become full time musician acting as Castle Organist at the world famous 1610 Esaias Compenius Organ at Frederiksborg Castle. In 2020 she moved to Roskilde being appointed Director of Music at Roskilde Cathedral, the burial place of the Danish Royal family and a World Heritage Cathedral housing the largest historical organ in Denmark, the 1654 Raphaëlis Organ.
Bine Bryndorf has a widely acclaimed international career as a soloist and is in great demand as a teacher of masterclasses and a juror at organ competitions. In 2019 she became an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. The same year she was awarded the Grand Frobenius Prize from the Danish organ builder firm Frobenius. She has recorded organ works by Buxtehude, Scheidemann, Bruhns, Bach and the Danish composers Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) and Niels la Cour (born 1944).
Program Notes
- Heinrich Scheidemann (1596–1663), Praeambulum in G Major, WV 73
- Heinrich Scheidemann, Dic nobis Maria, WV 51
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621), Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, SwWV 303
- Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637–1707), La Capricciosa, BuxWV 250
- Heinrich Scheidemann, Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore, WV 48
- Dieterich Buxtehude, Toccata in F, BuxWV 156
Improvisation was the special province of the so-called North German organ school, which stemmed from Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in the late 1500s and reached its pinnacle a century and a half later in the towering genius of Johann Sebastian Bach. All three organist-composers represented on tonight’s program were, first and foremost, master improvisers. As a young journeyman organist in Arnstadt, Bach made an arduous journey to Lübeck in 1705 to glean the secret of the art from the venerable Dieterich Buxtehude. Some fifty years earlier Buxtehude had made a similar pilgrimage to Hamburg to study with Heinrich Scheidemann, one of Sweelinck’s star pupils. That Sweelinck, a Dutchman, was the founding father of the North German school is less surprising when one considers the close ties of trade and culture that linked Hamburg to the Netherlands. The musicologist Pieter Dirksen notes that in the late sixteenth century a group of Hamburg merchants bought a chapel in Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk, where Sweelinck was organist, and eventually established a thriving Lutheran community in the heart of Calvinist Holland. A significant number of Sweelinck’s students hailed from the Hanseatic city on the Baltic, soon to become the center of North German organ music, and they may have introduced him to Lutheran chorales like Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott.