09.30 - 10.00: registration and coffee
10.00: opening
10.15 - 10.35: keynote lecture: Does organ composition exist?
Prof. Dr Karl Kügle (Utrecht University) discusses the notion of a musical 'composition' as a fixed object, as it is commonly understood today.
10.35 - 10.55: lecture: The social and artistic profile of the Renaissance organist: an interpretation
Hugo Bakker (student at the Lemmens Institute and Leiden University)
10.55 - 11.10: coffee
11.10 - 11.30: lecture: Apples and Oranges: questions of historical incongruity - the historical and present-day function of organ music composed before 1800
Dr Ibo Ortgies (University of Gothenburg, GOArt)
12.00 - 12.45: Symposium lunch time organ recital by Bernard Winsemius in de Nieuwe Kerk (Nieuwe Kerksplein 36)
"...gheene onbehoorlycke oft onstichtlycke balladen, liedekens oft dichten...", maar "...eenige psalmen, geestelycke oft welstichtige liedekens ende loffsangen, tot beter onderrichtinge vande gemeynte ende stichtinge van d'eene ende d'ander religie".
(Synode van Edam, 1586)
"… no unfitting or undignified ballads, songs or rhymes…", but "… several psalms, spiritual or dignified hymns and songs of praise, to further the education of the congregation and the foundation of one and the other religion". (Synode of Edam, 1586)
Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck (1562-1621)
- Praeludium
- Intabulation Psalm 28 (5-part)
- Variations on Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott
Giovanni Bassano (1558?-1617?)
Dic nobis, Maria (6-part, intabulation by Heinrich Scheidemann)
Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck
- Psalm 23 (3 variations)
- Psalm 51
- Psalm 2
Heinrich Scheidemann (1596-1663)
Gagliarda in D minor
Click here for Programme notes
14.00 - 14.20: lecture Glorious Moments or Missed Opportunities? Dutch organ composition at the time of the last 'Haarlem' restoration
Jaap Jan Steensma (student at Utrecht University)
14.20 - 15.00: panel discussion and question time
15.00 - 15.15: tea
15.20 - 16.30: Prof. Dr Christoph Wolff (Harvard University) and Prof. Dr Peter Williams (Edinburgh University, Duke University North Carolina) in debate, followed by a discussion
Prof. Dr Christoph Wolff:
"The early and late periods of Bach’s musical career are difficult to define, fact and fiction in the general perception hard to separate. Yet, recent Bach research has uncovered some evidence never before available – a situation that invites critical reassessment, but without going overboard by making the young Bach a “wunderkind” or the old man a demigod."
Prof. Dr Peter Williams:
"Unavoidably conditioned by the sceptical traditions of English criticism, I have always questioned appearances: what has come to us as the organ works of Bach, what has been said about his involvement with the organ, what (in the usual enthusiasm for the composer) had not been identified as puzzles in his Life & Works."
17.00: drinks in the foyer of the Philharmonie concert hall (Lange Begijnestraat 11)
17.30 - 18.15: main auditorium
Bach for People who do not like Bach (including 565 - The Remix)
Jakob Lekkerkerker (performance), Harry de Wit (compositie), Jannes Noorman (geluid)
In 2009, Jacob Lekkerkerker won the Sweelinck-Muller Prize, awarded to encourage young talent in the field of organ music. The prize included a place in the Haarlem festival programme. This provocative performance is entitled Bach for people who do not like Bach, and subtitled 565 the remix. It is the result of Lekkerkerker's collaboration with composer Harry de Wit and sound designer Jannes Noorman. The première took place during the Rotterdam Orgeldagen 2010.
In the evening (20.15 hours) you are warmly invited to attend the In Memoriam Ewald Kooiman in St Bavo's, a lecture-recital with Piet Kee, Christoph Wolff and Lorenzo Ghielmi.
