Original Compositions 1 骑熊士版

威廉-米德尔舒尔特（Wilhelm Middelschulte，1863-1943 年）曾在柏林学习教堂音乐，1891 年起担任芝加哥美国音乐学院和米尔沃基威斯康辛音乐学院管风琴系主任。作为一名管风琴演奏家，他对美国管风琴音乐产生了深远的影响：费鲁西奥-布索尼甚至称他为 "对位大师"，是继 J. S. 巴赫之后最伟大的协奏曲家。

作曲家: Middelschulte, Wilhelm
校订者: Meyer, Hans-Dieter / Sonnentheil, Jürgen
乐器: organ 管风琴
出版社: Bärenreiter 骑熊士(小熊版)
原文简介:
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