I recently wrote this trio prelude for organ over the
tune of a hymn by Johann Schop, which he wrote in 1641:
https://youtu.be/bVW0ja4hj8Q
The lyrics of "Sollt ich meinem Gott nicht singen" were
written by Paul Gerhardt in 1653. The hymn can be found
under no. 325 in the German Evangelisches Gesangbuch
(EG).
It's true that the trio may seem to sound quite modern
in its whole chromaticism, but when writing it, I was
actually influenced by some of J.S. Bach's choral
preludes from the ...(+)
I recently wrote this trio prelude for organ over the
tune of a hymn by Johann Schop, which he wrote in 1641:
https://youtu.be/bVW0ja4hj8Q
The lyrics of "Sollt ich meinem Gott nicht singen" were
written by Paul Gerhardt in 1653. The hymn can be found
under no. 325 in the German Evangelisches Gesangbuch
(EG).
It's true that the trio may seem to sound quite modern
in its whole chromaticism, but when writing it, I was
actually influenced by some of J.S. Bach's choral
preludes from the Little Organ Book (Orgelbüchlein,
bwv 599 - bwv 644), as some of them contain the cantus
firmus in canonic form (bwv 600, 608 [,613], 629...) -
furthermore, I was influenced by one of my favourites
from that collection: bwv 617 ("Herr Gott, nun schleuß
den Himmel auf", which means ~ "Lord, God, unlock
Heaven, now"), and by bwv 906 for harpsichord (which is
very chromatic and, maybe, quite "futuristic" for
Bach's time...), especially the (regrettably
unfinished) fugue.
