Johann Adam Reincken

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Johann Adam Reincken
Johannes Voorhout , Domestic Music Scene, 1674; the man at the harpsichord in the middle is probably Reincken, on the left at the viol Dietrich Buxtehude , on the right Johann Theile , listening
Johann Adam Reincken, painting by Godfrey Kneller , ca.1674

Johann Adam Reincken , also Jan Adams (Jean Adam, Jan Adam) Reincken or Reinken, Reinkink, Reincke, Reinike (baptized December 10th July / December 20th,  1643 greg. In Deventer ; † November 24th 1722 in Hamburg ) was a Dutch / German composer , organist and viol player .

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Reincken's family settled in Deventer in the Netherlands in 1637. The birth date of 1623 handed down by Johann Mattheson and the place of birth Wildeshausen are refuted by the baptism entry from 1643 in Deventer. Reincken received his first music lessons in Deventer in the early 1650s. From 1654 he studied organ playing and composition with Heinrich Scheidemann in Hamburg.

After a brief activity as an organist in Deventer, he returned to Hamburg around 1658 to work again with Scheidemann. Around 1663 he succeeded him as organist at the Hamburg Katharinenkirche . Here he worked until his death.

Reincken exerted some influence on Hamburg's musical life. In the 1670s, for example, he successfully promoted the implementation of extensions to the organ of the Katharinenkirche. In addition, he implemented further changes and improvements to the sacred buildings in Hamburg and northern Germany. In 1678 he co-founded the Hamburg Opera on Gänsemarkt .

His reputation prompted the young Johann Sebastian Bach during his Lüneburg years to visit Reincken in Hamburg in 1701 to be trained in organ playing with him. Bach was deeply impressed by Reincken's improvisations on the chorale “ An Wasserflüssen Babylon ”. Bach later used parts (individual movements and movement sequences) from Reinken's suite collection Hortus Musicus (1687) in his piano compositions BWV 954, 965 and 966.

Reincken died in 1722. His grave and epitaph are not in Hamburg, but in Lübeck's Katharinenkirche . Reincken bought a burial site here in 1702 from the family of his son-in-law Andreas Kneller .

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Reincken was one of the most important representatives of the North German Organ School . His compositional work is mainly characterized by sacred compositions, especially chorales , fugues and sonatas . As an organist he enjoyed an excellent reputation; in particular he was known for his organ improvisations. Few of his works are still preserved today.

In 2005, a handwritten copy by Bach of Reincken's An Wasserflüssen Babylon was discovered in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library .

Works (selection)

Bach's copy of Reincken's On Water Rivers Babylon
  • Choral fantasies
  • And a quarrel arose
  • Toccatas
    • Toccata in G minor
    • Toccata in G major
  • Hortus Musicus / recentibus aliquot Flosculis / Sonatas, / Allemanden, / Couranten, / Sarabanden / et / Giquen, / Cum 2 violin, Viola et Basso / continuo. (6 Partitas, Hamburg 1687)
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  • Fugue in G minor
  • 8 suites for harpsichord

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personal data
SURNAME Reincken, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH baptized December 10, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1722
Place of death Hamburg