The album was planned by Professor Helmut Deutsch, and students and alumni of his organ class at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart recorded it voluntarily.
Composer Biography
Fink received a scholarship from Crown Princess Olga Nikolayevna Romanova, which enabled him to study in Leipzig from 1853.
Composer Biography
Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist, noticed Christian Fink's talent when Fink worked as an organist and accompanist in the Riedel Society in Leipzig.
Composer Biography
Christian Fink, the composer, was born in 1831 as the child of a schoolmaster and was taught organ playing by his father, performing larger works by J. S. Bach by age 11.
Composer Biography
Fink's three musically gifted daughters were affectionately called his 'three organ pipes' by the composer.
Composer Biography
In 1855, Fink performed his Organ Sonata No. 1 in G minor, op. 1, for his final examination at the Leipzig Conservatory, receiving the highest mark of 'Very excellent'.
Compositional Technique
Fink's organ sonatas and fantasias are influenced by Robert Schumann's Fantasiestück genre and can be described as 'sonata fantasias'.
