Organ
SKU:
HL.14042524
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2013.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH31728. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14042524).
ISBN
9788759826928.
<
strong>Vintersalme-Musik<
/strong> (1980) - Choral
prelude for Organ. Orig.
title:
Vintersalme.
Programme note:
When in 1975 I
had finished composing my
3rd Symphony (begun in
1973), I wrote three
simple melodies for two
psalm texts by Ole Sarvig
“The Year”
and “Choral
Hymn”. One of these
was later included in the
Danish Hymnbook under the
title “Året
– Som året
går” (The
Year).
These three
“Sarvig
tunes” were derived
from the same material as
the second movement of
the symphony and could be
harmonized together in
several different
temporelationships at the
same time - like
fractals. This inspired
me to write several
choral and instrumental
works in the following
decade based on these
melodies: for instance
“Frost
Psalm”,
“Winter
Cantata”,
“Cycles”,
“Cantica” and
this piece for organ, all
coloured by the Nordic
and mythic poem by
Sarvig, the beginning of
which
goes:
The passing
year will pass its
deep
So shall our mind reach
winter´s
sleep.
And as the tree stands
leafles,
bare,
Is winter´s realms:
our minds
aware.
Per
Nørgård 
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