Talk:Johann Adam Reincken

Reincken
I'm going to go ahead and move this to Johann Adam Reincken; the New Grove lists him that way, and the German article spells his name that way as well. Both list Reinken as an alternate spelling, but that can be added to the main article text. This page is a stub, appears to be rarely updated, and has never been discussed, so I will assume no major opposition to changing the spelling to Reincken and making a note of alternate spellings in the main article. --Sesquialtera II 03:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

which is Buxtehude?
On the subject of the image of Reincken at the harpsichord: according to Ton Koopman ("Composer of the Week:Buxtehude" - Radio 3, 7.8.07) we do not know which one is Theile and which is Buxtehude (who also played the viola da gamba).Hikitsurisan 11:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Name, date of birth, portrait
I think we should get up to date, get away from the old gossip Matthesson's mistakes, and use the baptismal entry cited in the German article on Reinken: baptized 10th December 1643 in Deventer. Reinken was thus younger than Buxtehude. Regarding the spelling, there are a large number of possible versions of this Dutch surname. There is no reason to favor "-ck-" as being any more "authentic" than "-k-". No one really knows who is who in the group portrait. I for one would like to know what is written on the paper in the hand of the rather vague-looking young man seated in the curve of the harpsichord. If it is a canon by Buxtehude, it would identify him, rather like Bach being identified by one of his canons in his most famous portrait. Not that it matters too much - there is not much individual portraiture in the painting, the gambist and the man holding the paper looking much the same. Uttenthal, Salamanca.83.52.97.15 (talk) 17:41, 24 December 2008 (UTC)