Early Examples of Psalm Settings for Organ

Psalm 116 Ick heb den Heer lief Henderick Speuy (1575–1625)

Psalm 36/68 The Susanne van Soldt Manuscript (1599) Des boosdoenders Wille seer quaet (Ps 36) Staet op Heer toont V onversacht (Ps 68)

Psalm 24 Antoni van Noordt (1619–1675) Demonstration of Genevan Psalm Accompaniments through the Ages. (see insert)

Organ Repertoire Inspired by Jean Calvin’s Genevan Tunes

Freu dich Sehr, O meine Seele (Psalm 42) Georg Böhm (1663–1733)

O Mensch Bewein dein Sünde gross Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Variations on Psalm 84 Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaan (1812–1875)

Psalm 99 (Style Improvisatie) Willam van Twillert (b. 1952)

Psalm 134 (The Old OneHundredth) Denis Bédard (b. 1950)

Variations on Psalm 43 Klaas Roelof Bolt (1927–1990)

Organ Music and Psalm Singing in the Calvinist Tradition

April 15, Miller Chapel

The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public TheologyAnnual Conference 2011

Christiaan Teeuwsen

Christiaan Teeuwsen received performance degrees (M.F.A., D.M.A.) from the University of Iowa, and the Solo Diploma (Uitvoerend Musicus) in organ performance from the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam. While in the Netherlands he studied with Harold Vogel, Ton Koopman, and Klaas Bolt at the Grote of St. Bavo Kerk, Haarlem. He is currently professor of organ, harpsichord, and choral music at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. He has recorded for the SelemasLabel (Bach meets Buxtehude: Bader Organ-1639), The Organ Works of Georg Böhm (Reil Orgel-1999) for the Naxos Label; Baroque Dances on the Reil organ in the BovenKerk in Kampen (Incipit Label), and Schnitger in der Aa Kerk (Schnitger Organ-1702) released in June 2009 also by Incipit. He is concert-organist-in-residence for the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also director of music at MacNab Street Presbyterian Church, Hamilton, Ontario.

About the Kuyper Center This concert is taking place during the annual conference of the Abraham Kuyper Center for Theology and Public Life. The Center was established in 1998, following the 100th anniversary celebrations of Abraham Kuyper’s Stone Lectures on Calvinism, delivered in Princeton in 1898. Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was a towering figure in the Netherlands – pastor, church leader, theologian, journalist, educationalist, politician, and Prime Minister. He founded a new Christian Reformed denomination, a newspaper, a political party, and a university – all of them inspired by his Neo-Calvinist vision. The purpose of the Abraham Kuyper Center at Princeton Theological Seminary is to promote the study of Kuyper’s thought and writings, as well intellectual explorations of the theme that lay at the heart of all his endeavors – explicitly Christian engagement with every aspect of social, political, and cultural life. In addition to the annual Prize Lecture and conference, held in April each year, the center supports scholars working on the Seminary Library’s Kuyper Collection, now the most extensive body of materials on Kuyper anywhere in the world. It also edits the Kuyper Center Review. Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans, this annual volume publishes new work on Kuyper and Neo-Calvinism, as well as translations of works by Kuyper that have before appeared in English. Full details of the center’s work can be found at http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/kuyper/about.

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