Product Description
Prelude, Fugue and Chorale in B minor for organ, op. 72 (2018, revised 2019), is an
energetic composition in Neo-Classical/Neo-Baroque style. It starts as a dramatic but brooding Prelude, mostly with Impressionistic,
seventh chord harmonies and with allusions at Bach's great Fantasia and
Fugue in G minor BWV 542, ending with a very short quotation from Carl
Orff's "De temporum fine comoedia", which provides also the (bi)tonal
structure for this entire composition.
The Prelude is followed by an elaborate, peculiar, double, permutation
Fugue with themes based on a very short quotation from the beginning of
Mozart's great Fantasia in C minor for fortepiano K.475 and the
ascending first section of the Lutheran chorale "O Ewigkeit, du
Donnerwort". During the Fugue its themes suffer various transformations,
and instead of a proper coda a partial variant of the descending Lutheran Chorale "Ach Herr, lass
dein lieb' Engelein" (which ends also Bach's "St. John Passion") ends
the work in spiritual triumph (and finally with clearly consonant
chords).
Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. Duration: 7 min. 30 s.
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