I’m not an organist myself, but I enjoy organ music – on concerts especially, – and recently, while watching a performance on video, I was thinking about teenage evildoers. It might seem like I wasn’t being attentive, but no: I was all attention. I was thinking about that while keeping watch over the organist – having to switch from one keyboard to another and hitting bass notes with his feet he looked very busy. That’s what made me think about criminals – the idea is, they just have too much free time. And playing an organ even the most hyperactive of them would be unable to be distracted from the process. So consider this an option of averting juvenile delinquency.

Take Carlo Gesualdo – perhaps the only composer and murderer in history, he wasn’t playing organ. Talking about those who played, they were harmless and often quite funny chaps. I love the story about Dieterich Buxtehude who offered Bach and Handel his post of organist if someone of them would marry his daughter. To his chagrin, they didn’t go for it. By the way, even though Buxtehude is considered one of the most important organ composers (and composers of Baroque epoch at all), I noticed that even people who like classical music aren’t very much familiar with his works, not talking about all the rest. Below is a nice performance of Buxtehude’s Prelude in C major for organ I recently found, hope you’ll like it!

Praeludium C BuxWV 137 Buxtehude - P. van Dijk - YouTube