Original Compositions 1 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 年起擔任芝加哥美國音樂學院和密爾沃基威斯康辛音樂學院管風琴系主任。作為一名管風琴演奏家，他對美國管風琴音樂產生了深遠的影響：費魯西奧-布索尼甚至稱他為 "對位大師"，是繼 J. S. 巴赫之後最偉大的協奏曲家。

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 and headed the organ department at the American Conservatory in Chicago and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee from 1891 onwards. 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 contrapuntist since J. S. Bach.

Middelschulte’s œuvre 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.

The D minor Passacaglia works on the same formal level as Bach’s famous Passacaglia in C minor. The Canons and Fugue on “ Vater unser im Himmelreich ” demonstrate the formal rigour that typifies Middelschulte’s music as a whole.

- First Urtext edition of Middelschulte’s music

- Every volume has a detailed preface and critical report (German / English)

- Scheduled to include six volumes