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Toccata and Lament for organ (2008/2013)
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Toccata and Lament for organ (2008/2013) by Martin Herchenroder Organ - Sheet Music

By Martin Herchenroder
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Organ - Level 4

SKU: BA.BA11093

Composed by Martin Herchenroder. Stapled. Performance score. Composed 2008/2013. 19 pages. Duration 12 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11093. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11093).

ISBN 9790006565269. 11.81 x 9.06 inches. Preface: Herchenroder, Martin.

“Toccata and Lament” was composed on commission in 2008 to inaugurate the large new organ in the Christ Church Cathedral, Rochester, NY, USA. This instrument is a detailed reconstruction of a late Baroque organ of 1776 from Vilnius in Lithuania. The point of departure – a clash of contrasting eras and musical cultures on two continents – already bodes excitement. Martin Herchenröder, a composer and professor of music theory, has incorporated these contrasts in his roughly eight-minute composition. The result is a musical idiom of rare distinction, universal in its musical resources and alternating between tonal triads and extremely dissonant clusters. The heart of the piece is a dirge which, using the Baroque doctrine of the affections, relates to Eastern European cultural history in and around Vilnius, a history marked by the predations of 20th-Century war.

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