Organ SKU: BR.EB-8041
Of the 'Musical Offering' by J.S. Bach. Composed by Jurg Baur. Solo instruments; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Dusseldorf, May 20, 1978
Music post-1945. Score. Composed 1977. 24 pages. Duration 13'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8041. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8041). ISBN 9790004174401. 9 x 12 inches.
During the intensive study of Johann Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering for the creation of a commissioned composition for wind trio, I had the idea of writing a larger organ work on the Royal Theme at the same time. This is how the Three Ricercare came into being. They are multi-part fantasies for organ, which - connected by the frequently transformed thematic material of the Musical Offering and the manifoldly reshaped B-A-C-H motif - alternate between free, rapsodic parts on the one hand and strictly structured parts on the other. For my 60th birthday, W. E. v. Lewinski wrote an appreciation under the title: Music in the span between constraint and freedom. This formulation aptly characterizes the new organ work. (Jurg Baur) CD: Martin Herchenroder CD Koch 3-1846-3 H1 Bibliography: Semrau , Arno: Polpyhone Orgelmusik von Johann Sebastian Bach bis Jurg Baur, Augsburg: Wissner 2001, darin besonders pp. 259-304 und 510-532. Richter , Reinhold: Zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde zwischen Zweifel und Hoffnung. Einige Notizen zur Chor- und Orgelmusik von Jurg Baur anlasslich des 85. Geburtstages im vergangenen November, in: Forum Kirchenmusik 54 (2003), Heft 6, pp. 23-31.
World premiere: Dusseldorf, May 20, 1978.
