The Orgelbüchlein Project is a collective composition project aiming to complete Bach's unfinished manuscript known as 'Orgelbüchlein'. In the 'Little Organ Book', Bach laid out a complete hymnal of short organ chorales, 164 in all, but only completed 46 of them. Why the remaining 118 were left as blank pages, with only a title at the head, remains a mystery, but they inspired organist William Whitehead to found the Orgelbüchlein Project, in which contemporary composers are invited to contribute a piece to completing the collection. 

The resulting collection, to be published in eight volumes, represents a cross-section of the most interesting composers at work today across Europe. 

More information about this project is available at www.orgelbuchlein.co.uk.

List of composers

• Nigel Allcoat
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Sally Beamish
• Christian von Blohn
• Timothy Byram-Wigfield
• John Butt
• Stephen Hough
• Justė Janulytė
• Simon Johnson
• Jonas Jūrkunas
• Daniel Kidane
• Till Alexander Körber
• Ronny Krippner
• David Matthews
• Nico Muhly
• Anthony Powers
• Tarik O’Regan
• Roxanna Panufnik
• Poul Ruders
• Sven-David Sandström
• Robert Saxton
• Peter Shepherd
• Andrew Synnott
• Zsigmond Szathmáry
• William Whitehead