Hello,
A string quartet will perform a concert in my town church and I am to be a guest organist. They are supposed to play Dvorak's American Quartet, and we maybe will play some of his Bagatelles for string trio and harmonium.
Since I will also have some time for solo pieces, I am looking for Slavonic/Czech organ music roughly contemporary to Dvorak, not necessarily religious. I looked for compositions of The Five, but all I found was short preludes and fugues (maybe early academic works).
Does any of you has some suggestions ? Or do you think of arrangements for solo organ that might sound good ?
Thanks,
Slavonic Organ Music
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Re: Slavonic Organ Music
I know it is probably too late, but Alexander Glazunov wrote a Fantasy for Organ in G minor, Op. 110 (not a Czech composer or a member of The Five, but Russian nonetheless). The organ is not an extremely popular instrument in Eastern Europe, and many Orthodox Churches do not even have an organ, so many composers from that part of Europe refrained from writing for the instrument.