Abendmusik
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Abendmusik (German for "evening music") is an evening concert, usually performed in a church.
Specifically, they refer to a series of performances at the Marienkirche of Lübeck, Germany, begun in the 17th century and lasting until 1810. Paid for by local business men such as [[Franz Tunder], the concerts came to prominence under Dietrich Buxtehude (organist at Lübeck from 1668 until 1707), who established them on five Sundays preceding Christmas. At first they included organ music and a variety of vocal music. Buxtehude and his successors, however, composed five-part oratorios to be performed over the course of the five Sundays.
Organist Walter Kraft (1905-1977) renewed this Lübeck tradition in St. Mary's in 1926.
[edit] Reference
Apel, Willi, ed. The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1972.
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