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

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 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 (recording; 2002)
Perspectives on John Bull's Keyboard Music after 1613 (article; 2003)
New Perspectives on Lynar A1 (article; 2003)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Clavierwerke IV: Lied- und Tanzvariationen (edition; 2004)
Organ music by Sweelinck, Bull and anonymus (recording; 2005)
MGG - Sweelinck (lexicon-article; 2006)
Orlando Gibbons en de Sweelinck-School (article; 2006)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Clavierwerke II: Fantasien (edition; 2007)
Sweelinck's Vocal Music (six essays; 2008-2011)

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)
Heinrich 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 (recording; 2005)
MGG - Heinrich Scheidemann (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 (recording; 2007)
Samuel Scheidt: handschriftlich überlieferte Clavierwerke (edition; 2010)

Later North German Keyboard Music

De Koraalfantasie van Vincent Lübeck (article; 1986)
De orgelkoralen van Dietrich Buxtehude (article; 1987)
Georg Böhm: Choralbearbeitungen / Organ Chorales (recording; 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)
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)
Buxtehude und Bach: Neue Perspektive (article; 2010)
Dieterich Buxtehude and the Sweelinck Tradition (article; 2010)

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)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto Transcriptions for Harpsichord, vol. I-II (recording; 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)
Johann Sebastian Bach en het Luitclavecimbel (article; 2002)
Ein verschollenes Weimarer Kammermusikwerk Bachs? (article; 2003)
Überlegungen zu Bachs Suite f-Moll BWV 823 (article; 2003)
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue – First Version (ca.) 1742 (recording; 2003/2007)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannespassion – Earliest version 1724 in the reconstruction by Pieter Dirksen (recording; 2005)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Leipziger Choralfughetten (edition; 2007)
Bach's Violin Concerto in G Minor (article; 2007)
J.S. Bach und die Tradition der Choralpartita (article; 2009)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas with Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord - First complete recording, with Cassandra Luckhardt and Alfredo Bernardini (2009)
Johann Sebastian Bach: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS & Canonic Variations (recording; 2010)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonaten & Konzerte [Sämtliche Orgelwerke V] (edition; 2010)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio in g/e für Oboe, Viola (da gamba) und Continuo (edition; 2010)
Zur Echtheit der 'J.C. Bach' zugeschriebene Clavierwerke (article; 2010)
Buxtehude und Bach: Neue Perspektive (article; 2010)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Leipzig Organ Music for Christmastide (recording; 2010)

Performance Practice

Sweelinck’s Organs and Registration Practice, in: The Keyboard Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1997), pp. 609-640
The Sweelinck Paradox: Researching, Analysing and Performing Sweelinck's Keyboard Music (article; 2002)
Norddeutschland: Zum Orgelbau & Orgelspiel [in: Handbuch Orgelmusik] (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 [Appendix to: Sweelinck – Clavierwerke II: Fantasien] (2007)
Eine wenig beachtete Quelle zur Aufführungspraxis bei Georg Friedrich Händel (article; 2007)
New light on the performance of Froberger's harpsichord suites (article)

Miscellaneous

George Frideric Handel: Twenty Pieces for a Musical Clock (edition; 1987)
The Harpsichord and its Repertoire – Proceedings of the Harpsichord Symposium Utrecht 1990 (book; 1992)
A Froberger Miscellany (article; 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)
Eine neue Quelle zu Frobergers Cembalosuiten [with Rudolf Rasch] (article; 2001)
Louis Couperin: Pièces d'Orgue 1650-1659 (CD; 2006)
Johannes Schenck: Il Giardino Armonico Opus III (CD; 2007)
Froberger’s early style and the clavecinistes (article; 2008)
Girolamo Frescobaldi and the Netherlands (article; 2008)
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti and Cantata with Bassoon, Frans Robert Berkhout, La Suave Melodia (CD; 2008)
Die geistliche Vokalmusik Nicolaus Adam Struncks (article; 2009)