Tag: pipe organ

• The Audition

  Your hands lift from the keys and the final chord resounds in the sanctuary of the church. You shift your feet nervously, attempting to not touch the pedals; faintly you hear the men at the bellows of the organ cease their work, panting heavily. Your palms are covered in sweat and your heart hammers within […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  10th Feb 2022

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  audition, bach, pipe organ, student, temper

• The Long-Awaited Judge

  “He is coming?” “Soon.” “He is coming–soon, you say?” The eyes of the organ builder grow wide in fright. The other man nods. His air is one of importance and pomposity. “If I seem impatient, Hildebrandt,” he intones with warning in his voice, “then my father is infinitely less patient,” he says, folding the parchment […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  29th Jan 2022

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  baroque music, baroque organ, bwv 565, germany, hildebrandt, naumburg, pipe organ, st wenzel

• Ten Favorites pieces by J.S. Bach

  He wrote thousands of pieces, lived for almost seventy years, presumably began writing around the age of fourteen, and was endlessly pursuing perfection within his craft. An organist, keyboardist, violinist, cellist, cantankerous cantor, improviser, coffee-drinker, and authority-hater, he would be a revolutionary figure in musical history. Others overshadowed him in his life, but after his […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  13th Dec 2021

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  bach, baroque music, counterpoint, j s bach, pipe organ

• My Performances of Organ Music

  While I’m a fanatic about Baroque music, I’ll be the first to admit that I am not, and have never really been, an excellent performer. ‘Amateur’ is the word which properly fits the description of my passion and talents, although some would say I’m growing in terms of performance skills. My great love for the […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  6th Dec 2021

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  bach, baroque composer, baroque music, buxtehude, church, composer, pipe organ

• Variations on Choral Music

  Long has it been the tradition of Baroque composers to write variations or partitas over hymn melodies. I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that the idea was only large in Germany during the era, but I do not know why. Composers such as Buxtehude, Krebs, Böhm, Sweelinck(?) and others all experimented with the idea […]

  mitchbouchercomposer

  23rd Nov 2021

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  baroque music, composer, countrpoint, music, pipe organ, variations