Original Compositions 2 騎熊士版

威廉-米德爾舒爾特（Wilhelm Middelschulte，1863-1943 年）曾在柏林學習教堂音樂。1891 年起，他在芝加哥美國音樂學院和密爾沃基威斯康辛音樂學院擔任管風琴系主任。

作曲家: Middelschulte, Wilhelm
校訂者: Meyer, Hans-Dieter / Sonnentheil, Jürgen
樂器: organ 管風琴
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
原文簡介:
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.

The Concerto for Organ is a masterpiece of contrapuntal inversion. The thematic material of all five movements is taken from the theme of the great Organ Fugue in E minor BWV 584/2 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The “ Canonic Fantasy” is in the form of a passacaglia, whose theme and contrapuntal inversions are taken from the BACH motif. The virtuoso “ Perpetuum mobile” for pedal solo is one of the works which Middelschulte performed most frequently.

- First Urtext edition of Middelschulte’s complete organ works

- Each volume contains a detailed foreword and Critical Commentary (Ger/Eng)