related works

Music : for organ and percussion, (1973) / Jan Welmers

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 3perc org

Intrada en postludium : voor orgel, opus 57a, 1982 / Jan Masséus

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Seven Pebbles : for flute, double bass and two speaking voices / Nikos Kokolakis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: fl(zang) db(zang)

Deux Poèmes : pour orgue / Xander Hunfeld

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

composition

Memories II : voor organ / Jan Welmers

Author(s):
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.