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about a railway / Paul Turner.
Work Overview
The path taken by the twenty-year-old J. S. Bach on his long walk from Arnstadt to Lubeck in 1705 must have crossed the route of the railway that now goes through Hamburg to Berlin. The purpose of Bach's journey was to visit and learn from the composer Dieterich Buxtehude who was the organist at the Marienkirche in Lubeck.
The Martin Luther song 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' from around 1529 as played by Buxtehude in 1705 may have sounded something like the version that occurs at the 3'50" mark in this piece.
Buxtehude died two years after Bach's visit but Bach had already declined to take over as organist.
The railway came to Hamburg in the 1840s.
The organs Buxtehude played on at the Marienkirche were blown to bits by the British Royal Air Force in 1942.
Much of this could be subliminal, yet real, to a traveller waiting at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.
The railway recordings were in fact made at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof and at the Berlin Ostkreuz station.
Work Details
Year: 2024
Duration: 5 min.
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