Original Compositions 1 by Wilhelm Middelschulte Organ - Sheet Music
By Wilhelm Middelschulte
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Original Compositions 1
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Composed by Wilhelm Middelschulte. Edited by Hans-Dieter Meyer. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Wilhelm Middelschulte. Complete Organ Works I | BARENREITER URTEXT. Performance score, anthology. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA08491. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA08491).ISBN 9790006528318. 11.81 x 9.06 inches.
Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863–1943) studied church music in Berlin and headed the organ department at the American Conservatory in Chicago and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee from 1891 onwards. As a virtuoso organist he had a formative impact on American organ music: even Ferruccio Busoni called him a “master of counterpoint” and the greatest contrapuntist since J. S. Bach.
Middelschulte’s uvre consists entirely of organ works. He was a “modern classicist” firmly rooted in the 19th century tradition, yet strongly attached to baroque contrapuntal forms, and especially the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, with which he sought to rise above the compositional norm of his time. The result was a combination of romantic virtuosity with a vision of music that was anything but antiquarian, despite its historical models.
The D minor Passacaglia works on the same formal level as Bach’s famous Passacaglia in C minor. The Canons and Fugue on “ Vater unser im Himmelreich ” demonstrate the formal rigour that typifies Middelschulte’s music as a whole.
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