Friday night Organ Offering something seldom heard

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

JOHANN K. F. FISCHER (1660-1746) is seldom played or heard in the mainstream. He was the Kapellmeister for the Margrave of Baden. As a contemporary of Bach, Buxtehude, et al he was little known outside northern Swabia. (As a Swabian myself I of course know of him in detail.)

His “Ariadne Musica” was composed between 1702 and 1715
The book has 20 short preludes and fugues in 19 different keys, plus five ricercars based on chorales. Yes I know the clip is 40 minutes but it is divided among 25 short works. It is of course played on a period instrument—BUT NOT from the Swabian region. His music is more appropriately played on a Silbermann or Reipp instrument but so it goes.

You may never hear this guy’s stuff anywhere else so give it a good listen.

Here is some info about the organ:

http://www.arpschnitger.nl/sgrasb.html

[Y_Participant 4591]

thanks Pete – very interesting piece and the melody somehow reminds me of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor – don’t ask me why but it does. Has am almost Gothic undertone to it. I think it should be more popular among the younger crowd.

[HitmanParticipant]

i feel like something VERY important is going to happen when i listen to that Pete !
gracias !

[Anonymous 2]

Great find and great music!
Listened to all of it.

Always liked organ music, sometimes I go to concerts in churches when I hear an artist is around town.
I don’t like the modern composers organ music though.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

@ender You missed a good one several weeks ago—Ruebke Sonata on Pslam 94.

[Anonymous 2]

Found the post with Psalm 94.

Great music Pete!

I’m a subscriber to your Friday night Organ Offering.

[Anonymous 2]

Here’s my childhood friend playing the organ.
He went to the US some years ago, I stop by his channel from time to time.

PS he has no formal musical training.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Thanks man. Everyone else thought it was too long—way too dark and intense, so the next week I posted Bach’s sinfonia from Cantata 29 and there WAS STILL folks who didn’t like that! I told them its short, bright, cheerful etc…Oh well.

Actually this week—and don’t tell anyone we’re departing from the script—again and in honor of our old MGTOW brother Stealthy/Sausage Fingers I’m going to post some classical guitar! Enjoy.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

BTW your friend plays very well indeed—I note his pedal work! WOW. He is very talented. He reminds me of Cameron Carpenter. I saw him in person when he was about 16/17 several times. He was fantastic also. (And this is long before his “craziness” took hold of him—he actually looked normal back then.)

Did your friend compose the piece he was playing? Where was the instrument located? I seem to remember that in Romania there is a town called Hermannstadt, or Kronstadt I forget which but there is a church there called the Swchartzkirch which houses a very fine old organ built by the Berlin firm of Saurer.

[Anonymous 2]

A bit late with my response, but here I am.

PistolPete wrote:

in honor of our old MGTOW brother Stealthy/Sausage Fingers

What happened to Stealthy?
I saw a lot of references to him, but couldn’t figure out what happened.
If I recall from a previous post, he just took a break from the forums.

PistolPete wrote:

Did your friend compose the piece he was playing? Where was the instrument located? I seem to remember that in Romania there is a town called Hermannstadt, or Kronstadt I forget which but there is a church there called the Swchartzkirch which houses a very fine old organ built by the Berlin firm of Saurer.

He usually plays parts that catch his ears, I don’t know of any compositions of him.
Usually plays at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, but I saw him playing in a few other churches too.
http://stpaulssewickley.org/content.cfm?id=365

There are many German towns and villages in Transylvania.
Hermannstadt – Sibiu the home town of our current president Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic saxon.
Kronstadt – Brasov here is the Swchartzkirch, I went there once to an organ concert, it sounded incredible! Didn’t know it was built by Saurer from Berlin.
There are also other towns that had significant German populations.
Temeswar – Timisoara(my home town) in the region of Banat at some point had over 25% Swabian population.
My first employer was a Swabian gentlemen.

I see you are Swabian too:)
What is your home town in Germany?

[Anonymous 2]

Just read the description of the video I sent.
‘It is with great pride that I present you what I consider to be my first major work written for organ.’
It seems he did compose it, haven’t been in touch with him for some years.

Good music he composed, I like it a lot.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Stealthy is taking a break and he is an ICON of the site; classical guitar is his thing and you should go back and look at some of his posts. WOW.

Actually I had the builder wrong OOOPPPSSS its a Buchholz Still a fine instrument. There is supposedly a Sauer in Sibiu but I don’t know where. By the way check out this site:
http://orgue.free.fr/roumanie.html

Yes I was born in Heidelberg. My Mother and her family came from Upper Silesia, Just south of Breslau or whatever the Poles call it now. I don’t know much about my real father other than he was from Freiberg. From what I understand a lot of Swabians migrated in the 12/13 centuries to Transylvania.

Your friend is very lucky to be so talented!

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Timisoara(my home town) AHHHH the very heart of the rebellion in 1989!

[Anonymous 2]

PistolPete wrote:

Stealthy is taking a break and he is an ICON of the site; classical guitar is his thing and you should go back and look at some of his posts. WOW.

Going to look his posts up.

PistolPete wrote:

I was born in Heidelberg

Great town and great history!

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

If you have some youtube links for your friend please send them to me–I’d like to feature his work next week.

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