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Diderik Hansen Buxtehude (ca. 1637–,May 9, 1707) was an organist and composer of the Baroque period. Not only the year, but also the country of his birth is uncertain and disputed. Since he spent his early years in Helsingborg in Scania, at the time part of Denmark, he is by some considered a Danish composer. Others, however, claim that he was born at Oldesloe in Holstein, (Germany), which at that time also was under the rule of the Danish king, and regarded as part of the Danish kingdom. Later in his life he Germanized his name, his new name being Dietrich Buxtehude. |
