Frisian composer Reijnold Popma van Oevering is chiefly remembered for his innovations in Baroque church music in the Netherlands, though his influence also extended to keyboard music. His Six Suites for keyboard, Op. 1 were published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam around 1710, and were in circulation among musicians in Germany, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and his peers, probably inspiring the so-called English Suites, BWV 806-811, which were composed around 1715. While Popma van Oevering may seem an unlikely model for ...
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Frisian composer Reijnold Popma van Oevering is chiefly remembered for his innovations in Baroque church music in the Netherlands, though his influence also extended to keyboard music. His Six Suites for keyboard, Op. 1 were published by Etienne Roger in Amsterdam around 1710, and were in circulation among musicians in Germany, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and his peers, probably inspiring the so-called English Suites, BWV 806-811, which were composed around 1715. While Popma van Oevering may seem an unlikely model for Bach's suites -- other influences were probably in play, such as the suites of François Dieupart, who influenced many composers, including Popma van Oevering, as well as Telemann and Handel -- the similarity of dance forms and their order are remarkably close to Bach's format. Bob van Asperen plays four of Popma van Oevering's suites on a 1979 harpsichord by Michael Johnson, and performs the remaining two suites on the historic 1727 organ in the Grote of Jacobijnerkerk, Leeuwarden by...
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