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Six Pièces pour Orgue – Six Pieces for Organ (Ped.) (Critical New Edition)
Edited by Otto Depenheuer
His boundless admiration for Bach’s works and their immense influence on his own work as an organist, composer and teacher justified Widor in transcribing, transforming or freely paraphrasing a cycle of six freely chosen works by Bach for organ. It is a symphonically inspired homage to Bach: Ben van Oosten aptly describes the pieces “almost as Widor’s compositions, for which Bach provided the musical building blocks.” Bach from the perspective of French Romanticism and from the pen of one of its leading representatives: a truly epoch- and culture-transcending result whose musical charm is hard to resist!
Contents: Pastorale – Miserere Mei – Aria – Marche du Veilleur du Nuit – Sicilienne – Mattheus-Final.
“Widor does not limit himself to simply transcribing the voices and conveniently distributing them between hands and feet, but garnishes the transcribed works with his own stylistic ingredients, extremely carefully and tastefully, but still clearly noticeable. […] The six charming arrangements can certainly be performed individually, but also as a cycle.
