related works
Sequens : voor orgel, 1979 / Jan Welmers
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
Polydom : voor Frans drukwindharmonium, 2001 / Wim de Ruiter
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
harm
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org4h
Collages : voor 31-toons orgel, november 1962 / Peter Schat
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.