Great Fugues For Organ

Pachelbel was one of the great organ masters of the generation before J.S. Bach. Unsurprisingly interest in his music has remained constant and today he is widely considered one of the greatest and indisputably one of the most productive composers of all time. This new collection assembles a rich selection of the composer's organ works including 72 chorale settings and 48 nonliturgical works among them toccatas fugues preludes ricercares and fantasias. Reprinted here from the authoritative Breitkopf and Hartel edition edited by Max Seiffert these venerable compositions will be welcomed by organists at every level of accomplishment. Today's keyboard artist shouldnote that many of these works do not require a pedal and can be played on the piano or harpsichord as well as the organ.

Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection-Organ Chorales from the Neumeister CollectionYale University Manuscript 'LM 4708'In 1985 Christoph Wolff working at Yale University discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose forebears stem from the Northern German organ tradition. Already these early works comprising fantasias fugues fughettas and imitative techniques employing motifs from chorale melodies bear witness to Bach?s broad compositional spectrum.This newly published volume is an updated edition of Series IV/9 of the ?New Bach Edition? (NBA) edited by Christoph Wolff and based on this source.In addition to a newly added concordance and corrections to the musical text it also contains a detailed Foreword by Christoph Wolff with further information on the Neumeister Collection and hymnological details. The source of the complete Neumeister Collection has recently been made available on ?Bach digital? shedding light on the manuscript for the very first time.Links to major sources have been provided in collaboration with the Bach Leipzig Archive and its database ?Bach digital?. The desired page of the source can be accessed quickly and conveniently via URLs at http://links.baerenreiter.com. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis.Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now all of Bärenreiter?s new performing editions of Bach?s organ works are being revised to reflect the current state of scholarship and to convey maximum fidelity to the sources by being linked to ?Bach digital?.- Links to relevant sources in ?Bach digital?- Detailed new Foreword about the Neumeister Collection by Christoph Wolff (Ger/Eng)- Complete new engraving

To arrange one of the most beautiful organ fugues by the great classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for brass band is certainly a demanding task. Klaas van der Woude has however performed this feat to produce this excellent and exciting arrangement. Organ Fugue is suitable for any festive concert!

Un style qui repose sur le contrepoint, ou l'interaction de deux ou plusieurs motifs, la fugue a captivé les auditeurs pendant des siècles.Cette collection originale propose une grande variété de pièces de grande époque de la fugue à l'époque baroque ainsi que d'autres époques, chacune créé par un maître du genre. Avec des oeuvres de Bach, Buxtehude, Brahms, Schumann et d'autres, tous ensemble ici pour orgue solo. / Orgue