Complete Organ Works III: Original Compositions 3
Middelschulte, Wilhelm
Middelschulte Complete Organ Works III: Original Compositions 3
Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863–1943) studied church music in Berlin. From 1891 onwards he worked as director of the organ department at the American Conservatory in Chicago and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee .
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 contrapuntal composer since J. S. Bach.
Middelschulte’s oeuvre 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.
- First Urtext edition of Middelschulte’s complete organ works
- Each volume contains a detailed foreword and Critical Commentary (Ger/Eng)
Contents
- Toccata on the Chorale "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Canon in F major [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Méditation sur le choral "Tout passe ici bas" [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]