Wolfgang Stockmeier: J.G. Walther - Organ Works. 3CD

Wolfgang Stockmeier: J.G. Walther - Organ Works. 3CD

Artist: Wolfgang Stockmeier at the Fuehrer Organ in Zetel, Germany
Album: J.G. Walther (1684-1748) - Organ Works
Released: 1991
Label: CPO
Catalog N°: cpo 999 131
Genre: Classical, Organ
File Format: eac_flac_cue_log covers 3CD 848MB

Bach and Buxtehude didn’t stand alone. Johann Gottfried Walther was another North German composer more than deserving of his place in the discographical sun and was, moreover, Bach’s cousin on his mother’s side. He studied with Pachelbel’s son and was, through him, introduced to the works of Buxtehude and this was to be of potent and lasting significance. Walther specialized in choral Preludes – he wrote over one hundred – and keyboard transcriptions of Italian concertos. In that of course his similarities with Bach are obvious and intriguing. Both worked in Weimar where they were encouraged to write the transcriptions – Bach wrote five for the organ and sixteen for the harpsichord, Walther triumphantly trumping him with a claimed seventy-eight (although only fourteen seem to have survived).

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Related to J.S. Bach, his almost exact contemporary, on his mother's side, Johann Gottfried Walther was an important German organist and composer. His first organ lessons were in Erfurt with Johann Bernhard Bach, and he quickly became an able child singer. When he was 18 he landed his first organ post, at Erfurt's Thomaskirche. After a flirtation with philosophy and law at the local university, Walther turned all his attention to music, becoming especially interested in music theory. He began touring Germany on a regular basis, and in his travels he met the important theorist Andreas Werckmeister, becoming one of his protégés, if usually by long distance.... Read more

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