Complete Organ Works Volume II: Smaller Organ Chorale Arrangements Op.8 No.3
Distler, Hugo
Distler Complete Organ Works Volume II: Smaller Organ Chorale Arrangements Op.8 No.3 and previously unpublished works
Hugo Distler (1908-1942) studied organ with Günther Ramin and composition with Hermann Grabner in Leipzig. He then worked as cantor and organist at St. Jacobi in Lübeck and taught composition and organ at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule from 1937 onwards.
In 1940 he took up the same position at the Berlin Musikhochschule and also became director of the Berlin Cathedral Choir in 1941.
Considerably influenced by the Lübeck Stellwagen organ at St. Jacobi, he championed the characteristic pre-Baroque and Baroque sound of the organ and the forms which best suited it. His stylistic preference was for a specifically neo-Baroque, functional-objective type of sound.
This 3-volume critical edition with previously unpublished works includes the forewords of the first editions, facsimiles, a critical commentary for each volume as well as a list of sources.
- First Urtext edition of Hugo Distler’s organ works.
- Includes previously unpublished works.
- Reflects the latest state of research.
- Detailed foreword, critical commentary (Ger/Eng), facsimiles and tips on performance practice
Contents
- Smaller Organ Chorale Arrangements Op.8 No.3 [Distler, Hugo]
- I. Prelude and Movement "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" (Epiphanias) [Distler, Hugo]
- II. Prelude and Movement "Das alte Jahr vergangen ist" (Neujahr) [Distler, Hugo]
- III. Partita and Movement "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt" (Passion und Abendmahl) [Distler, Hugo]
- IV. Three Preludes and Movements "Christe, du Lamm Gottes" (Passion) [Distler, Hugo]
- V. Prelude and movement "Mit Freuden zart" (Ostern) [Distler, Hugo]
- VI. Prelude and Movement "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig" (Totensonntag) [Distler, Hugo]
- VII. Partita and Movement "Christ, der du bist der helle Tag" (Abend) [Distler, Hugo]
- Individually transmitted chorale arrangemets [Distler, Hugo]
- Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern (F major) [Distler, Hugo]
- Wie schön leucht't uns der Morgenstern (C major) [Distler, Hugo]
- Two Intonations and Movements "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" (Melodie: "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort") [Distler, Hugo]
- Short Concerto and Chorale "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" [Distler, Hugo]
