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Wydawnictwo: Ars Produktion
Nr katalogowy: ARS 38049
Nośnik: 1 SACD
Data wydania: maj 2010
EAN: 4260052380499
Nr katalogowy: ARS 38049
Nośnik: 1 SACD
Data wydania: maj 2010
EAN: 4260052380499
Schelb: Orgelwerke I-V (complete works for organ solo)
Ars Produktion - ARS 38049
Kompozytor
Josef Schelb (1894-1977)
Josef Schelb (1894-1977)
Wykonawcy
Martin Schmeding, organ
Martin Schmeding, organ
Josef Schelb (1894-1977) studied at the music conservatory in Geneva, Switzerland, with eminent composer and organist Otto Barblan and Liszt-pupil Bernhard Stavenhagen. After the First World War, Schelb taught piano and later composition and instrumentation at the music conservatory in Freiburg and at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. From the mid-1950s onwards, he devoted himself increasingly to composition. Josef Schelb’s oeuvre comprises around 150 compositions of almost every category and combination of instruments. His compositions include piano works and chamber music, song cycles, sacred and secular cantatas, as well as over 20 symphonies and orchestral works, two ballets and three operas. Josef Schelb’s organ works fall into the composer’s late period. Orgelwerk I was written in 1970, followed by four more works, Orgelwerk II-V, in 1974. The five Orgelwerke form a cycle in which the first and last works are structured in four movements after the Italian Sonata da chiesa, whereas the remaining three have three movements in varying order. Schelb’s musical language shows a wide range of influences, including impressionism, expressionism, twelve-tone music and atonality. Schelb’s compositions are marked by motivic transformations and polyphonic treatment. His connection to the Rhaeto-Romanic cultural sphere is apparent in the style of his symphonic work, which is notable for its transparency and clarity. Schelb’s registration instructions follow the French model and are quasi-architectural in style; his use of Spaltklänge (split tones) in some passages shows his affinity to the neo-baroque movement.
Organ at the Schuke organ at St. Immanuel Church, Wuppertal
Organ at the Schuke organ at St. Immanuel Church, Wuppertal