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Thinking I'd have some time to research the German-Dutch side of my family history a little while abroad, I asked my grandmother for any information she had on where to look. She said the most relevant information she could find was about Jan Reinken, a fmous organist at St. Catherine's Cathedral in, I believe, Hamburg.

While in Lueneburg and Coethen, [J.S.] Bach made two or more journeys to Hamburg to confer with Reinken and to hear him play. At one of these visits Bach improvised for 2 hours on the chorale-melody An Wasserfluessen Babylon, whereupon Reinken made the oft-quoted remark: 'I thought that this art was dead, but I see that it will live on in you.

I am l33t. The blood of one of Bach's consultants runs through my veins.