Sunday, 9/15/2024
at 6:00 PM


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Thorsten Hülsemann is an organist and cantor at Maulbronn Monastery Church as well as district cantor for the Mühlacker district. His solo recital this year as part of the Klosterkonzerte provides an overview of three centuries of German organ music history. The opening piece is Dietrich Buxtehude's "Toccata in d," in the typically freely virtuosic North German style of the late 17th century, for which the composer was already famous during his lifetime. This was reason enough for Johann Sebastian Bach to make the journey on foot from Thuringia to his role model. Several choral-based and free organ works from the pen of the later Thomaskantor are heard, such as the well-known choral arrangement of "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645," the "Concerto in G BWV 592," or "Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 547." Bach, less esteemed by his contemporaries as a composer than as a virtuoso musician and improviser, fell into obscurity after his death. His present fame is owed to Felix Mendelssohn, who inaugurated the Bach Renaissance through his performance of the "St. Matthew Passion" in 1829. He was also the first significant composer who dedicated himself intensively to the organ again after almost 100 years.
Thorsten Hülsemann performs his "Sonata in F minor, op. 65, 1," in which the first movement skillfully weaves in the chorale "Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit." The concert comes to a brilliant conclusion with a look to France: From Louis Vierne's popular first organ symphony, the Prélude and the Final resonate.

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