related works

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

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

Arc : for organ and four electronic sound-tracks, (1966) / Ton Bruynèl

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ; Electronics with different instruments; Organ with multimedia
Scoring: org 4soundtracks

Symphonies of winds : "come o winds and blow through the four organs", to the memory of Ton de Leeuw (1926-1996), for organ, 1996 / Daan Manneke

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ; Variable instrumentation
Scoring: org3h / 2org / org harm/acc/instr

Ostinato : per organo / André Laporte

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.