| Description: | As already "threatened", the Toccata and the chorale movement to the beautiful chorale "Werde munter mein Gemüte" have now been completed.
In the Toccata, I press all the available air into all the pipes of the Sterzing organ and ensure with a breakneck pedal score that this piece could almost certainly never be played by a human being.
However, it cannot be completely ruled out .... a small digression at this point: according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, anything is possible (he had given the example that one cannot rule out the possibility that if a glass falls to the ground and breaks into 1000 individual pieces, it can be transformed back into its original atomic structure. It is extremely unlikely, but it is not impossible. I'll let myself be surprised, if someone from the round can play this, they'll get an exclusive gift from me - I won't tell you what, it'll be a surprise!
As for the chorale movement, I had already written about the fugue that this has a special meaning for me. At the age of 16 (that was probably in 1978 - yes, I will be 60 in a good week) I scribbled my first "usable" composition, a song movement to "Werde munter mein Gemüte" in a notebook with a pencil and a lot of erasers, and my choir director thought it was so great that she rehearsed it with our choir and performed it in a concert (I was very proud of it, especially the bass line). Unfortunately, the original manuscript is lost, so I took the whole thing as an opportunity to create this piece as my op.2 no. 12. It has a playing time of almost 9 minutes, which, however, seems much shorter considering the dense notes.
Enough talk - have fun listening (and practising)? |
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