Johann Adam Reincken
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Johann Adam Reincken was a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important composers of the 17th century, a friend of Dieterich Buxtehude and a major influence on Johann Sebastian
Johann Adam Reincken.
Detail of a painting of Hamburg by Leopoldus Primus, ca. 1700. St. Catherine's Church is visible in the background.
Vincent Lübeck
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Vincent Lübeck was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai, where he played on
Johann Adam Reincken
…Reincken died wealthy. 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. A well-known anecdote tells of Bach's visit to Hamburg in 1720, and how Reincken after hearing Bach improvise a lengthy…
An oil painting of Lübeck, executed between 1724 and 1734.
The tower of St. Cosmae, Stade, where Lübeck worked for 18 years from 1675 to 1702
Title page of Lübeck's Clavier Übung