Strunck: Organ Works

Strungk, Delphin, Strungk, Nikolaus Adam

Flamme, Friedhelm

CPO 777 597-2

Vol. XI of our edition of Northern German Baroque Organ Works features the complete extant organ works of Delphin Strunck and his son Nicolaus Adam Strunck along with compositions by Christian Flor, Dietrich Meyer, Johann Decker, and Marcus Olter. Hardly anything is known about Delphin Strunck's musical training, but he is thought to have been the son of the Braunschweig organist Joachim Strunck. He was active as an organist, discharged composing duties for the city of Braunschweig, and maintained good relations with Heinrich Schütz. He quite probably was also in contact with other Northern German musicians of the time, but hardly anything is known for certain. His eldest son Nicolaus Adam Strunck was indisputably one of the most remarkable and multifaceted German musician personalities of the second half of the seventeenth century. The breadth of his compositional oeuvre and his employment of forms of Italian or Southern German influence in his seven capriccios and two ricercari in the stile classico or stile antico introduced new elements into the Northern German school – as Matthias Weckmann had done a few years earlier during his occupation with Johann Jacob Froberger's keyboard oeuvre.

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1/24/14

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