composer
Jan Welmers werd geboren op 6 juli 1937 te Zuidlaren.
Opleiding
Hij studeerde orgel aan het Gronings conservatorium bij Wim van Beek en aan het Utrechts conservatorium bij Cor Kee. Daarna studeerde ...
related works
Litanie : voor orgel, 1988 / Jan Welmers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Instruments:
org
Variationes (intermezzo e toccata) super "O quam amabilis" : per organum / Johan Weegenhuise
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Instruments:
org
Preludium en fuga : voor orgel, (1973) / Liuwe Tamminga
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Instruments:
org
Bruiloftsduo voor Aart en Lisette : for organ / Daan Manneke
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Instruments:
org
composition
Memories II : voor organ / Jan Welmers
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.