Pieter Dirksen

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Thematic Overview

This is a listing of my principal musicological publications as well as my recordings, thematically arranged. For further information the reader is referred to the chronological listings under:

Books & Editions, Articles, or Recordings

Sweelinck's Opera Dubia
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his Orbit

Sweelinck's Opera Dubia (article, 1986)
Sweelinck versus Praetorius (article, 1990)
Nogmaals: De zaak Johannes Praetorius (article, 1991)
Eight Chorale Settings for Organ by J.P. Sweelinck and his School (edition, 1991)
'Vater unser' - On Sweelinck and his German Pupils (article, 1994)
Sweelinck's Keyboard Polyphony and Scheidemann's Intavolations (article, 1995)
Psalm Variations from LyB7 (edition, 1996)
The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (book, 1997)
Een onbekende afbeelding van Sweelincks orgel (article, 1999)
The Dutch 17th-Century Tradition of (Improvised) Psalm Variations (article, 2000)
De Sweelinck-overlevering in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (article, 2001)
Peeter Cornet: Complete Keyboard Music [with Jean Ferrard] (edition, 2001)
Byrd and Sweelinck: Some Cursory Notes (article, 2001)
Zuid-Nederlandse Clavecimbelbouw (article, 2001)
The 'Lynar' Virginal Book (edition, 2002)
Sweelinck Studies – Proceedings of the Sweelinck Symposium Utrecht 1999 (book, 2002)
The Sweelinck Paradox: Researching, Analysing and Playing his Keyboard Music (article, 2002)
A Rediscovered Painting by Emanuel de Witte (article, 2002)
Sweelinck: Nine Harpsichord Works (CD, 2002)
Perspectives on John Bull's Keyboard Music after 1613 (article, 2003)
New Perspectives on Lynar A1 (article, 2003)
Jan P. Sweelinck: Complete Keyboard Works IV – Variations on Songs and Dances (edition, 2004)
Organ music by Sweelinck, Bull and anonymus (CD, 2005)
MGG - Sweelinck (lexicon article, 2006)
Orlando Gibbons en de Sweelinck-School (article, 2006)
Jan P. Sweelinck: Complete Keyboard Works II – Fantasias (edition, 2007)
Sweelinck's Vocal Music (six articles, 2008-2010)
Orlando Gibbons' Keyboard Music: The Continental Perspective (article, 2013)
Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt : Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck als Musicus Poeticus (article, 2013)
Sweelinck: Ten Keyboard Pieces (CD, 2013)
De achtergrond van Sweelincks kleine orgel (article, 2014)
The Virginalists (chapter in The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord, 2018)
Towards a Canon of the Keyboard Music of John Bull (article, 2019)
Sweelinckiana (article, 2021)
Een onbekende leerling van Sweelinck (met Michiel Roscam Abbing) (article, 2021)
Sweelincks Ricercar (article, 2021)
Jan Pieterszoon SWEELINCK - De Orpheus van Amsterdam (book, 2021)
Jan Pieterszoon SWEELINCK - The Orpheus of Amsterdam (book, 2024)
Sweelinck Compendium (book, 2025)

Eine unbekannte Intavolierung Heinrich Scheidemanns
Sweelinck's Pupils

Eine unbekannte Intavolierung Heinrich Scheidemanns (article, 1987)
Der Umfang des handschriflich überlieferten Clavierwerkes von Samuel Scheidt (article, 1991)
Eight Chorale Settings for Organ by J.P. Sweelinck and his School (edition, 1991)
'Vater unser' - On Sweelinck and his German Pupils (article, 1994)
Sweelinck's Keyboard Polyphony and Scheidemann's Intavolations (article, 1995)
Orgelwerke der Familie Düben (edition, 1997)
H. Scheidemann: Complete Harpsichord Music (edition, 2000)
Scheidemann, Scheidt und die Toccata (article, 2001)
Norddeutschland [Handbuch Orgelmusik] (article, 2002)
Vingerzettingen en ornamentiek bij Heinrich Scheidemann (article, 2004)
Organ music by Scheidemann, Kerll and Reincken (CD, 2005)
MGG - Heinrich Scheidemann (lexicon article, 2005)
Zum Fantasiebegriff bei Samuel Scheidt (article, 2006)
Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music – Its Transmission, Style and Chronology (book, 2007)
Heinrich Scheidemann: Harpsichord Music (CD, 2007)
S. Scheidt: Keyboard Music Transmitted in Manuscript Form (edition, 2011)
H. Scheidemann: Choralfantasien (edition, 2022)
'Hurtig mit der Faust, munter und aufger umt': Heinrich Scheidemann und die 'Sonderspezies' Choralfantasie (article, 2024)

De Koraalfantasie van Vincent Lübeck
Later North German Keyboard Music

De Koraalfantasie van Vincent Lübeck (article, 1986)
De orgelkoralen van Dietrich Buxtehude (article, 1987)
Georg Böhm: Choralbearbeitungen / Organ Chorales (CD, 1996)
Zur Frage des Autors der Toccata BWV Anh. 178 (article, 1998)
De Stylus phantasticus: fictie of werkelijkheid? (article, 1999)
Vincent Lübeck: Keyboard Music from Swedish Sources (edition, 2000)
Norddeutschland [in Handbuch Orgelmusik] (article, 2002)
Dieterich Buxtehude and the Chorale Fantasia (article, 2003)
VI Suittes, divers airs, et fugues (edition, 2004)
A Buxtehude Discovery (online article, 2005)
Johann Adam Reincken: Chorale Fantasias and Toccatas (edition, 2005)
The Enigma of the Stylus Phantasticus and Dieterich Buxtehude's Praeludium in G Minor (BuxWV 163) (article, 2006)
MGG - Weckmann (lexicon article, 2007)
Dieterich Buxtehude (?): Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein - Chorale Fantasia (edition, 2007)
Franz Tunder en de Noord-Duitse Koraalfantasie (article, 2014)
Franz Tunder: Complete Organ Music [with Vincent van Laar] (CD, 2015)
Georg Böhm's Keyboard Music: Questions of Authenticity and Aspects of its Relationship with the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (article, 2018)
Dieterich Buxtehude und Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Perspektive (article, 2019)
Dieterich Buxtehude und die Sweelinck-Tradition (article, 2025)

The Background to Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach and his Family

The Background to Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto (article, 1992)
Studien zur Kunst der Fuge von Johann Sebastian Bach (book, 1994)
Wann komponierte Bach das 5. Brandenburgische Konzert? (article, 1998)
Zur Frage des Autors der Toccata BWV Anh. 178 (article, 1998)
Bachs koraalpartita BWV 770 (article, 1999)
Het Auteurschap van het Praeludium en Fuga in f, BWV 534 (article, 2000)
J.S. Bach: Concerto Transcriptions for Harpsichord, vol. I-II (CD, 2000)
Johann Christoph Bach: Werke für Clavier (edition, 2002)
Bachs 'Acht Choralfughetten' (article, 2002)
Überlegungen zu Bachs Kantate 'Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde' BWV 83 (article, 2002)
J.S. Bach en het Luitclavecimbel (article, 2002)
Ein verschollenes Weimarer Kammermusikwerk Bachs? (article, 2003)
Überlegungen zu Bachs Suite f-Moll BWV 823 (article, 2003)
The Earliest Version of Bach's St. John Passion (online article, 2004)
J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue – First Version [ca.] 1742 (CD, 2003/2007)
J.S. Bach: Johannespassion – First version 1724 [reconstruction: Pieter Dirksen] (CD, 2005)
J.S. Bach: Leipziger Choralfughetten (edition, 2007)
Bach's Violin Concerto in G Minor (article, 2007)
J.S. Bach und die Tradition der Choralpartita (article, 2009)
J.S. Bach: Sonatas with Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord - First complete recording [!], with Cassandra Luckhardt and Alfredo Bernardini (CD, 2009)
Bachs Toccata's voor het clavecimbel, in het bijzonder de Toccata in fis-klein (article, 2010)
J.S. Bach: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS & Canonic Variations (2CD, 2010)
De Geheimen van de Matthäus-Passion (book [collection of 10 essays, edited by Pieter Dirksen], 2010)
J.S. Bach: Sonatas, Trios, Concertos [Complete Organ Works, Vol. 5] (edition, 2010)
Zur Echtheit der Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) zugeschriebenen Clavierwerke (article, 2010)
W.F. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in D Major (live recording, 2010)
Zur Umfang des erhaltenen Orgelwerks von Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (article, 2012)
J.S. Bach: Trio in g/e für Oboe, Viola (da gamba) und Continuo (edition, 2013)
C.Ph.E. Bach en het clavecimbel (article, 2015)
J.S. Bach: Fantasias, Fugues [Complete Organ Works, Vol. 3] (edition, 2016)
Bach's Fantasia & Fuga in G minor BWV 542 (article, 2016)
J.S. Bach: Ich habe meine Zuversicht BWV 188 (reconstruction; Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben) (edition, 2017)
Georg Böhm's Keyboard Music: Questions of Authenticity and Aspects of its Relationship with the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach (article, 2018)
Dieterich Buxtehude und Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Perspektive (article, 2019)
Bach's Chorale Partita "Ach, was soll ich sünder machen" BWV 770 (article, 2020)
Auf den Spuren von Bachs Flötenkonzerte (article, 2020)
J.S. Bach, the Fuga Contraria, and the Lutheran Concept of Umkehr (article, 2021)
J.S. Bach: Seven Toccatas for Harpsichord (CD, 2021)
J.S. Bach: Ehre sey Gott in der Höhe BWV 197.1 (reconstruction; Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben) (edition, 2022)
J.S. Bach: Concerto Reconstructions - with Combattimento (CD, 2024)


Sweelinck’s Organs and Registration Practice
Performance Practice

Sweelinck’s Organs and Registration Practice, in The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1997), pp. 609-640
The Dutch 17th-Century Tradition of (Improvised) Psalm Variations (article, 2000)
The Sweelinck Paradox: Researching, Analysing and Performing Sweelinck's Keyboard Music (article, 2002)
Norddeutschland: Zum Orgelbau & Orgelspiel [in Handbuch Orgelmusik, pp. 6-14] (article, 2002)
Vingerzettingen en ornamentiek bij Heinrich Scheidemann (article, 2004)
Scheidemann's Keyboard Music - Its Transmission, Chronology and Performance (book, 2006)
The Instrumental Designation in Sweelinck's Keyboard Works (essay included in Sweelinck – Clavierwerke II: Fantasien, pp. 206-217) (2007)
Eine wenig beachtete Quelle zur Aufführungspraxis bei Georg Friedrich Händel (article, 2007)
Uitvoeringspraktijk bij Johann Jacob Froberger (article, 2017)


A Froberger Miscellany
Johann Jacob Froberger

A Froberger Miscellany [with Rudolf Rasch] (article, 1992)
Eine neue Quelle zu Frobergers Cembalosuiten [with Rudolf Rasch] (article, 2001)
Constantijn Huygens en het clavecimbel (article, 2008)
"Un homme très-rare sur les espinettes" (aricle [in Dutch], 2016) Uitvoeringspraktijk bij Johann Jacob Froberger (article, 2017)
Froberger und die frühen Clavecinisten (article, 2018)
Johann Jacob Froberger in Dresden (article, 2018)
Southern Germany and Austria (chapter in The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord, 2018)
Johann Jacob Froberger: Suites for Harpsichord (edition, 2023)
Johann Jacob Froberger: Libro Secondo 1649 (CD, 2024)
Johann Jacob Froberger: Toccatas for Harpsichord and Organ (edition, 2024)


Miscellaneous

G.F. Handel: Twenty Pieces for a Musical Clock (edition, 1987)
The Harpsichord and its Repertoire – Proceedings of the Harpsichord Symposium Utrecht 1990 (book, 1992)
Per Cembalo et Organo – De Klaviermuziek van Girolamo Frescobaldi (article, 1993/2001)
MGG – Toccata (article, 1998)
Zingen in een kleine taal rond 1700 (article, 2001)
Louis Couperin: Pièces d'Orgue 1650-1659 (CD, 2006)
Johannes Schenck: Il Giardino Armonico Opus III (CD, 2007)
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti and Cantata with Bassoon, Frans Robert Berkhout, La Suave Melodia (CD, 2008)
Zur geistlichen Vokalmusik von Nicolaus Adam Strunck (article, 2009)
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti with Bassoon (vol. 2), Frans Robert Berkhout, La Suave Melodia (CD, 2011)
'Eine Bachische Creatur': Johann Ludwig Krebs, 1713-2013 (article, 2013)
François Couperins "Mistérieuse" Quatriéme Livre de Clavecin (article, 2019)
François Couperin's "Mistérieuse" fourth harpsichord book (article, 2019)
François Couperin: Pièces d'Orgue 1690 (CD, 2021)