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| Numero di catalogo: STR 37004
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CANTATA I: AD PEDES
CANTATA II: AD GENUA
CANTATA III: AD MANUS
CANTATA IV: AD LATUS
CANTATA V: AD PECTUS
CANTATA VI: AD COR
CANTATA VII: AD FACIEM
The work is dedicated to Gustav Düben, organist and Kapellmeister in Stockhom, who
was not only a personal friend of Buxtehude but also responsible for the preservation of
many of his compositions which came together in the Düben collection, today held in
the library of the University of Uppsala. Buxtehude’s choice to write the first version of
Membra Jesu Nostri in the form of tablature for the organ was a gesture that contributed
to emphasising the closeness of the two musicians. On the other hand, this composition
was not only a declaration of affection and friendship but an authentic spiritual testament.
Membra Jesu Nostri is a meditation on the seven parts of the Mystical Body, to which
there correspond seven cantatas, each of which is divided into six episodes.
Membra Jesu nostri is a long progress which begins with an ascent (the two ascending
sixteenths of Ecce super montes), and ends with an ascent. It is a progressive focussing,
a slow act of awareness. It is a Sacred Representation. The execution is consciously not
totally philological from the musical point of view: for example, there are not five soloists
who sing a parti reali as the author probably thought, but a sort of doctrinal philology
that tries to restore as far as possible the idea of a community united around the
idea of Word, and many voices to represent it completely.