This recording features the Great Organ of Fulda Cathedral, a 72-stop, four-manual Rieger-Sauer organ, described as magnificent by the American Record Guide.
Composer Biography
Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger, the composer, was born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, in 1839 and began organ lessons at age five, serving as organist at Vaduz two years later.
Composer Biography
Rheinberger was highly regarded as a teacher, with notable pupils including Engelbert Humperdinck, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, and Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Performer Biography
Wolfgang Rübsam, the organist on this recording, won the 1973 Grand Prix de Chartres for Interpretation and is known internationally through over a hundred acclaimed recordings.
Composer Biography
Rheinberger was appointed to the staff of the Munich Conservatory as a piano teacher in 1859 and later became professor of organ and composition, a position he held until his death in 1901.
Composition History
Rheinberger's twenty organ sonatas are considered among the major works composed for the instrument in the nineteenth century.
