Fantasie g-Moll

Maestoso
Pastorale
Andante
Maestoso (Reprise)

Jan Krtitel Kuchar (1751-1829) was a Czech composer, organist at the Strahov Collegiate Church and a good friend of Mozart.

His most famous and popular organ work, the so-called Fantasia in G minor, consists of three individual pieces that were originally completely independent of each other and were only later combined into a large concert fantasy (not by the composer himself, but by Jan Wowes (1885-1945), a later organist at the Strahov Collegiate Church). Due to their distinct character, these three pieces, the first of which is finally repeated as a reprise, unfold their special, contrasting effect precisely in this arrangement.

The three movements of the "Fantasy," Maestoso, Pastorale, and Moderato, originally titled Largo in G minor, Pastorale in C major, and Andante in A minor, are set more slenderly (without octave doubling) and notated on only two staves, making them significantly easier to play and suitable for performance without the pedal.
The Andante in A minor originally has a 25-bar final section, which was omitted from the Moderato section of the G minor Fantasy to avoid the key change from A minor back to G minor, so that the movement in the Fantasy ends in E minor, which is a good fit for the reprise of the first movement (G minor).
Jan Wowes also added numerous ligatures, altered some of the accompanying figures and ornaments, and, contrary to the original, has the Maestoso end in G major at the recapitulation (Kuchar's Largo ends in G minor), so that the "Fantasy" in his version must be described as a fairly free arrangement.
In my interpretation of the piece (see link above), I have partially chosen a "middle path" and, for example, play the original accompanying figures from Kuchar's Andante in bars 15-17 of the Moderato, which, to my ears, sound considerably more elegant and "gallant."