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ORGAN 2 /ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. [1] Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes. [2]
XVIII:6 in F major for violin and organ (or harpsichord) with string orchestra (1766) Haynes, Battison. Organ Sonata in D minor, op. 11 (1883) Hindemith, Paul. Kammermusik No. 7 for organ and chamber orchestra, Op. 46, No. 2 (1927) Organ Sonata No. 1 (1937) Organ Sonata No. 2 (1937) Organ Sonata No. 3 (on ancient folk songs)(1940) Organ ...
His monumental Symphonie Concertante, op. 81 of 1926 is a tour de force, considered by many to be among the greatest works ever written for organ and orchestra. [9] Numerous eminent organists of modern times (such as Virgil Fox, Alexander Frey, Jean Guillou, Michael Murray, Diane Meredith Belcher and Olivier Latry) have championed and recorded it.
In Germany and Austria, baroque organ music utilized increasing amounts of counterpoint. Organ music in the baroque can be divided into works based on Lutheran chorales (e.g. chorale preludes and chorale fantasias) and those not (e.g. toccatas, fantasias and free preludes). There are marked stylistic differences between the composers of North ...
Adagio für Orgel (Adagio for organ) - a sketch in B major, which was found in 1953 in a catalog of the Musikautographen-Sammlung of Louis Koch. It is a first draft for the main theme of the Adagio of the Symphony No. 9 – Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/6, No. 7 [5] [14] Seven short organ preludes, WAB 127 & 128, written in c. 1835. [15]
A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. ISBN 0-9528050-2-2; Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5; Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music.
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The Clavier-Übung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for organ, containing some of his most musically complex and technically demanding compositions for ...