Middelschulte Original Compositions 2 for Organ
Middelschulte Original Compositions 2 for Organ

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Middelschulte Original Compositions 2 for Organ

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    Composer: Wilhelm Middelschulte

    Publisher: Bärenreiter

    Instrumentation: Organ

    Binding: Paperback

    Dimensions: 11.8 in x 9.1 in

    Pages: 110

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Editor: Meyer, Hans-Dieter / Sonnentheil, Jürgen

Orchestral scoring : Org

Product format: Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: XXII, 105/5 - 30,0 x 23,0 cm

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)