Complete Organ Works V: Original Compositions 5
Middelschulte, Wilhelm
Middelschulte Complete Organ Works V: Original Compositions 5
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 in the USA .
No lesser authority than Ferruccio Busoni described Middelschulte as a “master of counterpoint” and declared him to be the greatest contrapuntalist since Johann Sebastian 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.
This fifth volume of the Urtext edition marks the completion of the publication of Middelschulte’s original organ compositions.
- First Urtext edition of Middelschulte’s Complete Organ Works
- Each volume contains a detailed foreword and critical commentary (Ger/Eng)
Contents
- Canonic Variations on the Chorale "Jesus, meine Zuversicht" [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Choral and Passacaglia St. John [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Variations and Canons in G minor [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Lamentation [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]
- Appendix: Lamentation long version [Middelschulte, Wilhelm]