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Die Orgeln im Freiburger Münster - Chororgel - Künstlerfreunde

3/21/2025, 17 Tracks, 1:16:44

Featuring

  • Matthias Maierhofer
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Heinrich Peter Freiherr von Herzogenberg
  • Robert Fuchs
  • Rudolf Bibl

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Notable Performances

Rudolf Bibl, a composer on this album, performed as organist for Brahms' first choral and orchestral concert as director of the Singverein in Vienna in 1863.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Brahms' Prelude and Fugue in A minor shows influences from Buxtehude and Bach, particularly in the anticipation of the fugue theme as a bass motif, reminiscent of Bach's G minor organ work BWV 535.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Robert Fuchs' extensive organ work, the Variations in C sharp minor, was initially neglected after its intended premiere was canceled due to the organist's death.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Robert Fuchs, a composer featured on this album, was a student of Johannes Brahms, who once called him 'a splendid musician'.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The choir organ in Freiburg Minster, built by Orgelbau Kuhn in 2019, can only be played by electric action from the main console and an additional mobile console.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Robert Fuchs, whose Variations in C sharp minor are on this album, taught famous pupils like Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf at the Vienna Conservatory.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Johannes Brahms dedicated his Prelude and Fugue in A minor to his friend Clara Schumann, for his 23rd birthday on May 7, 1856.

Source: Booklet

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