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- Given Mendelssohn's profound affinity for the organ, it is remarkable that he composed but relatively little for the instrument, and assigned an Opus number to only two works: his Three Preludes and Fugues for Organ (Op. 37) and his Six Sonatas for the Organ (Op. 65).
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The organ sonatas, BWV 525–530 by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six sonatas in trio sonata form. Each of the sonatas has three movements, with three independent parts in the two manuals and obbligato pedal.
Registration of Bach’s Trio Sonatas varies particularly widely. Many organists prefer that the three musical lines remain distinct in tone color to allow Bach’s counterpoint to be heard most clearly, but there are others who believe that the sonatas benefit from a similarity of timbre in the voices, as would be the case if two violins were ...
May 31, 2017 · Edition Bachakademie Vol. 99: Organ Works - Six Sonatas: Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major BWV 525 [3:11, 5:59, 4:04] Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor BWV 526 [4:01, 3:57, 4:20] Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor BWV 527 [4:59, 4:03, 4:03] Trio Sonata No. 4 in E minor BWV 528 [2:51, 5:01, 2:38] Trio Sonata No. 5 in C major BWV 529 [5:28, 5:47, 3:52]
When it comes to his organ music, the organ sonatas form the backbone of his oeuvre, composed over a 33-year period between 1868 and 1901; indeed the F Major Sonata proved to be the composer’s final completed work. They are like all his music, late romantic and filled with some glowing themes.
Mar 4, 2021 · After a respite of a few years, I jumped back in to the world of trio sonatas during my year as Organ Scholar in Truro with No. 3 - I remember realizing how unique an experience it probably is to learn a trio sonata on a Father Willis organ…! No. 3 also got a bit of TLC with Professor Higgs at Eastman during the first year of my MMus.
Jun 1, 2021 · Teaching online has become a new art form, and the experienced teacher Hans-Eberhard Roß has hit on the idea of pairing the six Bach Trio Sonatas (BWV 525-530) with the six Mendelssohn Sonatas as a ‘kind of organ school’, interlacing Bach with Mendelssohn sonata by sonata and using the Goll organ in St Martin, Memmingen in June 2020 to ...