related works

Sequens : voor orgel, 1979 / Jan Welmers

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Missa : for organ / Spiros Mazis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Patmos : for organ / Rens Tienstra

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

IX: Centrum van stilte : twee stukken muziek voor orgel, '65 / Jos Kunst

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

composition

Memories II : voor organ / Jan Welmers

Other authors:
Welmers, Jan (Composer)
Description:
The erratic nature of the piece is partly caused by the rapid alternation of contrasting moods.
Initially the music ‘brushes’ briefly with utterances of our time, in which intervals such as rising and falling minor seconds, and minor thirds, soon dominate. They allude to phrases from the Lutheran chorales "Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland", "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" and "Meine Seele erhebt den Herren". These phrases too are intended as ‘brushes’. The lines of the chorales are heard as cantus firmi. They occur within the erratically shaped curve and in several tranquil passages, where stylistic references are made to earlier periods.