Pieter Dirksen

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Pieter Dirksen (* 1961 in Brisbane ) is a Dutch harpsichordist , organist and musicologist .

Life

Dirksen received his doctorate cum laude from the University of Utrecht in 1996 with a dissertation on keyboard music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , who was also awarded a Praemium Erasmianum . He has published studies and editions in the field of Northern European music, mainly for keyboard instruments, from Sweelinck to Bach, is an editorial member of the Bach Yearbook and gives lectures and seminars.

Pieter Dirksen is a member of the «Combattimento» (formerly «Combattimento Consort Amsterdam») and the chamber music ensemble «La Suave Melodia». As a continuo player he plays with various other orchestras and ensembles as well as with Opera Zuid. He also gives solo concerts on harpsichord and (historical) organs at home and abroad as well as master classes in Haarlem, Utrecht, Gothenburg, Leufsta Bruk, Leipzig, Palencia, Smarano, Basel, Moscow, Rochester and Cambridge, among others. He is titular organist at the historic organ by Andries Severijn (around 1650) in the Martinuskerk in Cuijk .

Publications

Sound carrier (selection)

Editions (selection)

  • Psalm Variations from Lynar B 7. (1996)
  • H. Scheidemann: Complete Works for Clavier (2000)
  • (with Jean Ferrard ) Pieter Cornet: Complete Keyboard Music (2001)
  • Johann Christoph Bach: Works for Clavier (2002)
  • The "Lynar" Virginal Book. (2002)
  • JP Sweelinck: Complete Works for Keyboard Instruments Vol. 4 - Song and Dance Variations (2004)
  • Johann Adam Reincken : Complete Organ Works - Choral Fantasies and Toccatas (2005)
  • JP Sweelinck: Complete Works for Keyboard Instruments Vol. 2 - Fantasias (2007)
  • Dieterich Buxtehude (?): Now rejoice, dear Christians gmein [first edition] (2007)
  • JS Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 5 - Sonatas, Trios, Concerts (2010)
  • Samuel Scheidt : Handwritten piano works (2011)
  • JS Bach: Trio Sonata in G minor (reconstruction based on BWV 76/8 and 528) (2013)
  • JS Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 3 - Fantasies, Fugues (2016)
  • JS Bach: Cantata 188, "I have my confidence" [reconstruction] (2017)
  • JJ Froberger: Suites for harpsichord (2020)
  • H. Scheidemann: Choral Fantasies for Organ (2020)

Monographs

  • [Ed.] The Harpsichord and its Repertoire. (1992)
  • Studies on the art of the fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. (1994)
  • The Keyboard Music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. (1997)
  • [Ed.] Sweelinck Studies. (2002)
  • Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music. (2007)
  • [Ed.] The secret van de Matthew Passion. Crafts en mystiek van een meesterwerk. (2010)

Articles (selection)

  • Sweelinck's Opera Dubia - a Contribution to the Study of His Keyboard Music. (1986)
  • The extent of the handwritten piano works by Samuel Scheidt. (1991)
  • The Background to Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. (1992)
  • Scheidemann, Scheidt and the Toccata. (2000)
  • De Sweelinck-overlevering in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. (2001)
  • (with Rudolf Rasch ) A new source for Froberger's harpsichord suites. (2001)
  • Perspectives on John Bull's Keyboard Music after 1613. (2002)
  • The cantata “Delighted Time in the New Bunde” BWV 83 and the role of the violin in Bach's first year in Leipzig. (2002)
  • The Sweelinck Paradox: Researching, Analyzing and Performing Sweelinck's Keyboard Music. (2002)
  • Bach's "Eight Choral Fughetten" - An Unheeded Leipzig Compilation? (2002)
  • Dieterich Buxtehude and the Chorale Fantasia. (2003)
  • New Perspectives on Lynar A1. (2003)
  • A lost Weimar chamber music work by Johann Sebastian Bach? On the prehistory of the Sonata in E minor for organ. (2003)
  • On the concept of fantasy in Samuel Scheidt. (2006)
  • The Enigma of the stylus phantasticus and Dieterich Buxtehude's Praeludium in G Minor BuxWV 163. (2006)
  • A little-known source on the performance practice of Georg Friedrich Handel . (2007)
  • JS Bach's Violin Concerto in G Minor. (2008)
  • On the sacred vocal music of Nicolaus Adam Struncks . (2009)
  • J. S. Bach and the tradition of the chorale partita. (2009)
  • On the authenticity of the piano works attributed to Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703). (2010)
  • On the extent of the surviving organ works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach . (2012)
  • Orlando Gibbons's Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective. (2013)
  • Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542. (2016)
  • Towards a Canon of the Keyboard Music of John Bull. (2017)
  • Georg Böhm's Keyboard Music: Questions of Authorship and Connections with the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. (2018)
  • Buxtehude and Bach: New Perspectives. (2019)
  • François Couperin's “Mysterieuse” fourth harpsichord book. (2019)
  • Bach's chorale partita Oh, what should I do as a sinner, BWV 770. (2019)
  • J. S. Bach, the fuga contraria, and the Lutheran Concept of Inversion. (2020)

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personal data
SURNAME Dirksen, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch harpsichordist, organist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane