Clara/Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Julius Reubke, and the Ladegast organ

Question 1

What are the (closest to) organ works of Clara Schumann?

Answer 1

Op. 16, 1845, Three Preludes and Fugues for Piano,
-g minor, B flat major, and d minor
-No. 3 closest to idiomatic organ writing

Question 2

What are the organ works of Schumann, with some details given?

Answer 2

All written in short time in 1845
Six Studies in Canonic Form, op 56
-Most popular no. 5, dedicated to first music teacher
Four sketches for pedal piano, op. 58
-All in ternary form with contrasting middle section
Six Fugues on BACH, op 60
-Conceived as character pieces, earliest significant organ compositions on BACH before Liszt’s and Reger’s pieces

Question 3

What are the major, larger works of Franz Liszt for organ? Give some details

Answer 3

Fantasie und Fuge uber den Choral “Ad Nos, ad salutarem undam,” 1850
-Theme from a Meyerbeer opera, La Prophete
Präludium und Fuge uber das Thema BACH, 1855
Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine, 1862
-Uses Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen Zagen, 1863
-Concludes with chorale “Was Gott thut”

Question 4

What are some of the less-major, important organ works of Franz Liszt?

Answer 4

Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross), 1878/9
Missa pro organo, 1879
Requiem, 1883

Question 5

What are the organ works of Julius Reubke? Give some details

Answer 5

Trio in E flat, 1850
Adagio in e
-First version of what was to become central section of the organ sonata
The 94th Psalm, Sonata for Organ, 1857
-Published by his brother, Otto, in 1870s, influenced by Liszt’s B minor sonata

Question 6

What are the works written for the Ladegast Organ in Merseburg Cathedral?

Answer 6

Franz Liszt Fantasie and Fugue on “Ad Nos” and his Prelude and Fugue on BACH
Julius Reubke, Sonata on 94th Psalm

Question 7

Details of the Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral

Answer 7

Enlarged from earlier instrument, 81 stops, 4 manuals