Concerto for organ

Definition

Like all the types of concertos, the concerto for organ is a musical genre consisting in associating an organ as an instrument soloist with an orchestra playing the part of guide. One should not thus confuse the concerto for organ with other kinds like the symphony or the conference in which the organ is treated like element of the orchestral mass and does not have a function soloist.

The concerto for organ knew its apogee for the period baroque with type-setters like Haendel, Corrette or Vivaldi. It should nevertheless be noted that during this time, the organ in concerto is treated with the manner of a harpsichord and the part of organ practically never includes/understands pedals and it is accompanied only by one modest orchestra being able to be reduced to the quartet (orch. of room).

Practically forgotten during the traditional period, it returns to XIXe by the large door, to compete with the symphonic full orchestra thanks to Saint-Saëns or Vierne. The Concerto of Poulenc one of most famous and is played.

List concertos for organ (by time and author)

Period baroque

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)

Haendel creates the concerto for organ “to furnish” the interludes with her Oratorio S; it holds the organ itself while directing the orchestra. As very often in this type-setter, it is difficult to count them with exactitude because all the alternatives exist, of the original composition to the simple arrangement of former compositions or by other musicians. It is nevertheless generally allowed that they are 16, here:

HWV 289 - COp 4 n° 1 in minor ground: larghetto, allegro, adagio, andante
HWV 290 - COp 4 n° 2 in major B flat: the tempo ordinario, allegro, adagio, allegro my nontroppo
HWV 291 - COp 4 n° 3 in minor ground: adagio, allegro, adagio, allegro
HWV 292 - COp 4 n° 4 in major F: allegro, andante, adagio, allegro
HWV 293 - COp 4 n° 5 in major F: larghetto, allegro, went siciliana, presto
HWV 294 - COp 4 n° 6 in major B flat: andante, allegro, larghetto, allegro moderato
HWV 306 - COp 7 n° 1 in major B flat: andante, allegro, largo, adagio, allegro
HWV 307 - COp 7 n° 2 in the major one: overture, the tempo ordinario, the tempo ordinario II, allegro
HWV 308 - COp 7 n° 3 in major B flat: allegro, fuga, spiritoso, minuets 1 & 2
HWV 309 - COp 7 n° 4 in minor D: adagio, allegro, adagio, allegro
HWV 310 - COp 7 n° 5 in minor ground: allegro my nontroppo, adagio, andante, minuet, gavotte
HWV 311 - COp 7 n° 6 in major B flat: pomposo, adagio, the tempo ordinario
HWV 295a - major F (n° 13): largo, allegro, larghetto, allegro
: HWV 295b - Second version: larghetto, allegro, larghetto, allegro
HWV 296a - the major one (n° 14): largo E staccato passage, andante, serious, allegro
: HWV 296b - Second version “Pasticcio Konzert”: andante, adagio, serious, andante allegro, have tempo ordinario
HWV 304 - minor D (n° 15): andante, adagio, allegro
HWV 305a - major F (n° 16): concerto, allegro, andante, walk allegro
: HWV 305b - Second version: opening, allegro, andante, walk allegro

Concertos for organ solo:

HWV 297 - minor D, according to HWV 328: opening, air, allegro, allegro, allegro moderato
HWV 298 - G major, according to HWV 319: has tempo giusto, allegro, adagio, allegro, allegro
HWV 299 - major D, according to HWV 323: larghetto E staccato passage, allegro, presto, largo, allegro, minuet a poco larghetto
HWV 300 - minor ground, according to HWV 324: largo E affettuoso, has tempo giusto, accordion music larghetto, allegro, allegro

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

major the “It Rosignuolo” for violin, organ and cords, RV335
minor D for violin, organ and cords, RV541
major F for violin, organ and cords, RV542 (allegro, lento, allegro)
major C for violin, violoncello, organ and cords, RV554a
minor C for violin, organ and cords, RV766
major F for traverso, organ and cords, RV767

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any concerto for organ, although it was its instrument of predilection, but, admiring Vivaldi much, he wrote trasncriptions-reductions of several of his concertos. He is of habit to call these transcriptions the " Vivaldi-Bach". He also adapted to the organ alone some concertos of other authors:

Michel Corrette (1709-1793)

Concerto n° 1 in G major: allegro, aria I, aria II, allegro
Concerto n° 2 in the major one: allegro, adagio, allegro
Concerto n° 3 out of major Re: adagio, aria, andante, adagio, allegro
Concerto n° 4 in major C: allegro, aria, allegro
Concerto n° 5 in major F: allegro, aria, allegro
Concerto n° 6 in minor D: allegro, andante, presto

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)

Concerto n° 1 in major C: largo my idiot spirito, andante, allegro, minuetto
Concerto n° 2 in G major: allegro, lento, moderato, allegro, idiot spirito
Concerto n° 3 in the major one: idiot spirito, idiot spirito, minuetto, moderato
Concerto n° 4 in major B flat: idiot spirito, minuetto, giga moderato
Concerto n° 5 in minor ground: largo, allegro idiot spirito, adagio, long-lived
Concerto n° 6 in major B flat: allegro, moderato, AD libitum, allegro, minuetto

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Concerto for organ and orchestra n° 4 in major B flat: idiot spirito, minuetto, giga
Concerto for organ and orchestra n° 5 in minor ground: largo, allegro idiot spirito, adagio, long-lived
Concerto for organ and orchestra n° 6 in major B flat: allegro moderato, minuetto - variations
Concerto for organ, cords and low continues in G major: allegro di molto, largo, presto

Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783)

Six concertos for two organ (musical scarcity):

Concerto n° 1 in major C: andante, minué (to listen to Å®)
Concerto n° 2 in the minor: andante-allegro, tempo di minué
Concerto n° 3 in ground: andantino, minué
Concerto n° 4 in F: afectuoso, andante not largo, minué
Concerto n° 5 in: cantabile, minué
Concerto n° 6 in D: allegro-andante-allegro-andante, minué

Traditional period

Romantic and symphonic period

Modern period

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): Kammermusik n° 7, concerto for organ and orchestra with winds, opus 46/2 (1927)
Marcel Dupre (1886-1971): concerto as a semi minor opus 31 (1931)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): concerto for organ in minor ground (1938)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991): first concerto for organ or harpsichord and orchestra (1949)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991): second concerto for organ and string orchestra (1961)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): concerto for organ and orchestra (1963)
Jean Langlais (1907-1991): third concerto “Reaction” for organ, string orchestra and drinking cups (1971)
Charles Chaynes (1925): concerto for organ, cords, drinking cups and percussions according to the Spiritual Canticle of Jean Saint of the Cross (1973)
Jean Guillou (1930-):

Invention for organ and orchestra (concerto n° 1) opus 7
Heroic Concerto for organ and orchestra n° 2 opus 10
Concerto n° 3, for organ and string orchestra opus 14
Concerto n° 5, “King Arthur” for organ and copper opus quintet 35
Concerto 2000 for organ and orchestra opus 62
Concerto n° 6 for organ and orchestra (wood by 3,4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, percussions, cords) opus 68

Thierry Escaich (1965-): concerto for organ and orchestra

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