Veni creator Spiritus Partita for Organ by Hermann Schroeder Organ - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: S9.Q2398

Hermann Schroeder (1904–1984) ranks among the major German organ composers of the 20th century, being an excellent organist himself. Many of his more than 100 organ works deal with themes of the Gregorian chorale. The chorale's modal diatonicism which is freer and different than the later major-minor tonality establishes a perfect symbiosis with the free tonality of the contemporary composer. In the five-movement chorale partita, the more than 1,000 years old Mixolydian Whitsun Sequence of Hrabanus Maurus (9th century) is used in an imaginative and formally varied way: as a virtuoso toccata, in the second movement 'ostinato' as a strict trio setting over a seven-bar ostinato in the pedal, as a capriciously playful 'bicinium', and as a meditative, harmonically appealing 'arioso'. The fifth movement (fantasia ricercare) displays brilliant full-handed chords and virtuoso passages as well as a fugato in the middle section. A rewarding concert piece for Whitsun, with an excellent possibility of virtuoso interpretation and colourful registration.

Dans la partita chorale en cinq mouvements, la séquence de Pentecôte mixolydienne de Rabanus Maurus (9e s.), datant de plus de 1000 ans, est utilisée de manière imaginative et variée. Une pièce de concert parfaite pour la période de Pentecôte, qui offre une excellente possibilité d’interprétation virtuose et de registration colorée.