14th October 2013 AFTERNOON DRAMA

Monday 14^th October 2013 at 2.15 pm

BBC Radio 4

THE ORGANIST’S DAUGHTER

By

Stephen Wyatt

 Directed by Martin Jenkins

with

Emma Fielding and Simon Russell Beale

Dieterich Buxtehude was famous throughout Europe for his skill as an organist. Many musicians coveted the post he held in Lübeck, including Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Sebastian Bach, both then in their early twenties. But there was a condition – the successful applicant had to marry Buxtehude’s thirty-year old daughter, Anna Margreta.