related works

Litanie : voor orgel, 1988 / Jan Welmers

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Passacaglia en fuga : orgel / Andries de Braal

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

Dust : for organ and soundtracks, 1991/1992 / Ton Bruynèl

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

Interlude VII : from 12 Interludes for organ / br Kris Oelbrandt ocso

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.