Manuel Tomadin, the organist on this recording, has won four national and six international organ contests, including the Grand Prix d'ECHO 2011 in the Alkmaar Schnitger Competition.
Historical Context
During the 17th century, the Dutch Reformed Church's Calvinist doctrine forbade musical instruments during worship, hindering the spread of organ music.
Historical Context
Despite restrictions on church music, Dutch cities owned the organs and church buildings, employing full-time organists to play for the public daily.
Composition History
Anthoni van Noordt's 'Tabulatuurboeck van Psalmen en Fantasyen' was the first keyboard music book published in the Netherlands in fifty years.
Instruments
The F. Stellwagen organ in Lübeck's Jakobikirche is one of the few organs globally to preserve original Gothic and Renaissance pipes.
Composer Biography
Anthoni van Noordt, an organist, worked at the 'Nieuwezijds Kapel' and later the renowned Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, where he oversaw an organ enlargement project.
Compositional Technique
Van Noordt's Fantasias are improvisational and typically monothematic, based on imitative treatments of a single subject, but Fantasias 2 and 5 introduce a second independent subject.
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