Ideal for semi-professional church musicians and organists.Collection of easy to moderately difficult Organ arrangements.Also playable on smaller instruments.Suitable for teaching purposes.The Easy Handel Organ Album presents a wide overview of the composer’s sacred and secular works forming an ideal basis for lessons and for introducing Baroque Organ music.This selection comprises easy to moderately difficult Handel pieces for semi-professional church musicians and organists. All the pieces are also suitable for performance on smaller instruments.Contents:From Music for the Royal Fireworks:Grave Allegro two minuets / From the Water Music: Air Alla Hornpipe Minuet Coro / From Berenice: Minuet / From Serse: Largo / Further movements from Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah / Movements from Organ Concerto Op.4 No.6 (arranged for solo organ by John Walsh) / From Six Fugues or Voluntaries: Fuga VI.

Organ Works Volume 2: Twenty small Fugues and Freely Composed Organ PiecesTelemann?s organs works pay tribute to the contrapuntal art of the High Baroque while pointing to the age of Gluck Haydn and Mozart in their emphasis on melody.Easy to play Telemann?s organ music strikes a masterly balance between traditional stylistic elements and those of the burgeoning ?style galant?

French Baroque organist and composer François Roberday (1624-1680) is best known today for his Fugues And Caprices collected and published in a superb volume by Le Pupitre. Roberday's Fugues And Caprices are four-part contrapuntal Organ pieces. Each Fugue is paired with a Caprice on the same subject and with an exciting 12 Fugues and Caprices included in the collection Roberday's compositions cannot be missed. Moreover with a preface in English French and German Fugues And Caprices are essential to the repertoire of all Baroque organists.

Jan Sweelinck (1562-1621) was among the most famous organists of seventeenth century Europe and an influential composer in the Dutch and North German tradition. Bridging both Renaissance and Baroque styles the Dutch composer is best remembered for the inventive sparkling music he wrote for organ and other keyboard instruments. This remarkable treasury includes nearly all of Sweelinck's brilliant keyboard works most of which have survived only in widely scattered seventeenth century manuscripts. In Sweelinck's day these were some of Europe's most popular pieces for organ and keyboard. Nowadays they retain every bit of their original intensity and vigour. Reproduced inthis authoritative complete-resource edition they will be welcomed by serious keyboard artists who will find them as praiseworthy today as they were when first known and played in Europe over three hundred years ago.

A major influence on Bach ? who once walked 200 miles to hear him perform ? Buxtehude is among the great names in Organ music and the study of counterpoint. Born five decades after Heinrich Schütz the 'father of German musicians ' and a little less than half a century before Bach he bridged the era between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. This collection of church chorales attests to Buxtehude's reputation as an outstanding composer of sacred Vocal music.For his texts the composer drew upon scripture as well as church hymns and contemporary or medieval sacred poetry. Albert Schweitzer in his famous biography ofBach observed that Buxtehude's chorale preludes are 'chorale fantasias of the most varied kinds from the simplest to the most ingenious. In the simple ones the melody goes its way quietly just embellished here and there with a few ornaments and accompanied by interesting and always ingenious harmonies. . . . In the large chorale preludes Buxtehude tears the melody in pieces throws the fragments into the flood of a brilliant animated fantasia.'Authoritative and modestly priced this treasury of Buxtehude's works offers organists a source of endless satisfaction and inspiration.Reprint of the Breitkopf & Härtel Leipzig 1903 edition.

The large-scale partitas Op.8 Nos.1 and 2. Hugo Distler studied Organ with Günther Ramin and composition with Hermann Grabner in Leipzig. He then worked as cantor and organist at St. Jacobi in Lübeck and taught composition and Organ at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule from 1937 onwards. In 1940 he took up the same position at the Berlin Musikhochschule and also became director of the Berlin Cathedral Choir in 1941. Considerably influenced by the Lübeck Stellwagen organ at St. Jacobi he championed the characteristic pre-Baroque and Baroque sound of the organ and the forms which best suited it. His stylistic preference was for aspecifically neo-Baroque functional-objective type of sound. This 3-volume critical edition with previously unpublished works includes the forewords of the first editions facsimiles a critical commentary for each volume as well as a list of sources. - First Urtext edition of Hugo Distler’s Organ works. - Includes previously unpublished works. - Reflects the latest state of research. - Detailed foreword critical commentary (Ger/Eng) facsimiles and tips on performance practice.

10 Orgelwerke Aus 4 Jahrhunderten-New Music on old instruments and new organ literature in dialogue with historical Iberian works. The present edition contains a collection of works composed for an authentically rebuilt historical Spanish organ and covering a wide range of styles which adds new sounds to the purely Baroque repertoire.With works by José Blasco de Nebra Francisco Correa de Arauxo Antonio de Cabezón Pedro de Araujo and new compositions by Guy Bovet Michael Kapsner Pavel Klimashevsky Zsigmond Szathmáry and Alfred Müller-Kranich.The new Spanish organ of the Hochschule für Musik Mainz as an authentically rebuilt historical instrumentfrom the workshop of the organ builder Joaquín Lois from Tordesillas in Castile shall both adequately reproduce early music and be a source of inspiration for contemporary music. For this reason the Hochschule für Musik Mainz commissioned five composers to write modern compositions according to the motto 'Early music in dialogue with New Music' which are a valuable addition to the repertoire of historical instruments of the 'Siglo de Oro'.Certain specifications had to be taken into account: e. g. a limited pitch range half stops for treble and bass registers the short octave as well as a mean-tone temperament. In addition each composition is based on a work of the Iberian organ literature; sometimes the work found its way into the new composition sometimes it only served as an inspiration.The pieces can also be played on a modern organ although there is a special charm in playing and hearing them played on an appropriate historical instrument. Encompassing a broad range of styles the resulting collection adds new sounds to the purely Baroque repertoire.

Includes Bach's famous Prelude in C Major plus a terrific 'play out' number by the baroque composer Carbonelli (actually an Italian wine merchant!).Grade: 4 - 7

Following on from the bestselling ‘50 Baroque Fillers’ here is another collection of easy baroque favourites designed to fill the gaps which occur in liturgical worship. All have optional cuts and many have been shortened toreduce them to the appropriate length.

Fourteen solos from the Baroque era by Telemann Vivaldi Scarlatti Bach and Handel. Arranged for organ by James D. Kimball.

für die Silbermann-Orgel in der St. Georgenkirche Rötha-The composition ?Silberklänge? was commissioned for the 2020 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. The composer noted: ?During my first visit to the Georgenkirche in Rötha I was impressed by the immensely vibrant and noble sounds of the historic Silbermann organ (1721) the endless variety of possible timbre combinations the stellar acoustics of the church and the historic atmosphere which shaped and tamed my musical thoughts transporting me into my very own ?baroque? world.? This edition contains registration marks that reflect the soundscape the composer intended to achieve with this particular organ. Performing the work on an organ with differentregistration possibilities will open up a new spectrum of possible timbres.

Baroque music is much loved by both players and listeners and for a long time there has been a pressing need for an easy collection especially designed to fill the gaps which occur in liturgical action. There are optional cuts inthe pieces and some have been shortened in order to reduce them to an appropriate length. Your congregation will leave the church with joy in their souls!

Hommage À Frescobaldi by Jean Langlais is a set of eight pieces for Organ. Dedicated to his professor Marcel Dupré these pieces require the use of pedals and could be practised by upper-intermediate / advanced players. The pieces are: 1. Prélude au Kyrie 2. Offertoire 3. Elevation 4. Communion 5. Fantaisie 6. Antienne 7. Thème et variations 8. Épilogue While all the pieces include keyboard and pedals the epilogue is a pedal solo. Girolamo Frescobaldi was an Italian composer of the Renaissance and Baroque period who was also appointedSt Peter’s main organist. His work was some of the most influential music of the 17th century. Jean Langlais was a French composer who contributed prolifically to the Organ repertoire.

J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a German Baroque composer who is revered for the originality and skill of his contrapuntal and harmonic techniques. He spent most of his life working as an organist and choirmaster but was also employed as a composer a many different Royal Courts. However his skill as an organist and composer for Organ is what gained him the reputation he enjoyed during his lifetime.This is perhaps epitomised by his Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor (BWV 542) often referred to as the Great Fantasia and Fugue. It has been edited by Sir Frederick Bridge and James Higgs.

This 'symphony' for solo organ takes inspiration from the late Baroque and mid-Classical styles most noticeably Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Although there is advice on the intended style the approach to registration is flexible allowing a range of interpretation and enjoyment for performer and listener alike.