Nicolaus Bruhns was a German Baroque composer, organist and virtuoso violinist born in Schwabstedt (then in the Duchy of Schleswig) in 1665, who studied in Lübeck and served as organist in Husum from the late 1680s. Associated with the North German organ school, his surviving output comprises virtuosic organ praeludia, chorale settings and sacred vocal works that combine elaborate pedal writing with idiomatic violinistic figuration and expressive rhetorical gestures.
