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Complete Organ Works, Volume 2
Catalog: BA8492
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Description
Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863–1943) studied church music in Berlin . From 1891 onwards he worked as director of the organ department at the American Conservatory in Chicago and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee.
As a virtuoso organist he had a formative impact on American organ music: even Ferruccio Busoni called him a "master of counterpoint" and the greatest contrapuntal composer since J. S. Bach.
The Concerto for Organ is a masterpiece of contrapuntal inversion. The thematic material of all five movements is taken from the theme of the great Organ Fugue in E minor BWV 584/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The “Canonic Fantasy” is in the form of a passacaglia, whose theme and contrapuntal inversions are taken from the BACH motif. The virtuoso “Perpetuum mobile” for pedal solo is one of the works which Middelschulte performed most frequently.
- First Urtext edition of Middelschulte’s complete organ works
- Each volume contains a detailed foreword and Critical Commentary (Ger/Eng)
Table of Contents:
- 1. Concerto for organ on a theme by J. S. Bach
- 2. Canonical fantasy about BACH and Fugue on 4 topics of J. S. Bach
- 3. Perpetual Motion
| Publisher: | Bärenreiter |
| Composer/Author: | Middelschulte, W. |
| Arranger/Editor: | Meyer & Sonnentheil |
| Catalog Number: | BA8492 |