Dietrich Buxtehude

Danish/German composer Dietrich Buxtehude (c1637-1707).
He belongs to the generation of organists before Johann Sebastian Bach, who, like Handel, once travelled to Lübeck to hear the master perform at the Marienkirche, where he then served as organist for forty years, from 1667 until his death in 1707. Buxtehude wrote a considerable quantity of music, choral and instrumental, for church use, as well as chamber music and keyboard music of a more secular kind.