Course 21

Organ repertoire by Hendrik Andriessen & Albert de Klerk by Prof. Leo van Doeselaar

Dates: July 27-31 (2nd week)

Description
In collaboration with the Haarlem-based Andriessen/de Klerk Stichting, this year a course will be devoted to two great Haarlem organists, composers (and for a time even neighbours) Hendrik Andriessen and Albert de Klerk. Most of the masterclasses will be given on the Adema organ in St. Joseph’s Church, a French-style instrument on which both composers worked as organists.
Hendrik Andriessen developed his own compositional style, which was initially heavily influenced by César Franck. Andriessen’s organ compositions were also closely linked to his organ improvisation style. The same is true in many cases for the great improviser Albert de Klerk, although he also sought connections with Baroque compositional processes and with some German neo-Baroque pioneers such as Hindemith and Bialas. Nevertheless, the influence of Andriessen and Duruflé is very recognisable in De Klerk’s organ and choral music.
The course is enriched by two interesting Dutch composers who were contemporaries of Andriessen and who have in common that their careers took place mainly abroad. Jan Brandts Buys was highly regarded in Vienna, and Gerard Bunk moved from Rotterdam to Dortmund, where he was appointed organist of the monumental Walcker organ of the Rheinoldikirche for many years. All four composers had in common that they were all-round musicians: conductor, composer, teacher, organist and pianist.

Repertoire list
Hendrik Andriessen:
Sonata da Chiesa (Ed.Ascolta)
Premier Choral (Ed.Ascolta)
Quatrième Choral (Ed.Ascolta)
Passacaglia (Ed.Ascolta)
Sinfonia (or only Intermezzo) (Ed.Ascolta)
Intermezzi I and II (Ed.Ascolta)
Quattro Studi per organo (Ed.Ascolta)
Fête-Dieu (Donemus Publishing)

Albert de Klerk:
Sonate (Donemus Publishing)
Ricercare (Hommage à Sweelinck) (Ed.Ascolta)
Prelude en fuga (Ed.Ascolta)
Tres Meditationes Sacrae (Donemus Publishing)
Selection from ‘Twelve Images’ (Novello)
From ‘10 orgelwerken’: Passacaglia, Toccata (Ed.Ascolta)

Gerard Bunk (Ed.Breitkopf):
‘Praeludium en fuga over een thema uit de Eroïca-Symphonie van Beethoven’,
op. 8
Praeludium a-Moll, op.12, Nr.1
Praeludium e-Moll, op.16, Nr.1
Praeludium g-Moll, op.16, Nr.2
Aria Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten (Butz Verlag/Breitkopf)
Melodie, Scherzando, Impromptu, Aeolsharfe (from ‘8 Charakterstücke, op.54)
Intermezzo grazioso from Sonate f-Moll, op.32 (Bärenreiter/Breitkopf)
Legende, op.29

Jan Brandts Buys:
Patria (Phantasie g-Moll), op.36 (Interlude Music Productions)
Choral Nun ruhen alle Wälder (Interlude Music Productions)

Choose which pieces from this list you want to prepare and let us know by sending an email to office@organfestival.nl. Please note that the playing time per student is limited and that we cannot guarantee that you can play all your preferred pieces. Nevertheless, choose approximately 3-5 pieces so that the professor can compile an attractive course program.
If we do not receive notification of your prepared pieces, your registration will be changed to passive.

This course can not be combined with:
[4a] Organ repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach (Bryndorf)
[4b] Organ repertoire by Jehan Alain & Gaston Litaize (Lebrun)

About Leo van Doeselaar
Leo van Doeselaar is a versatile musician who is internationally active as an organist, pianist and fortepianist. He has recorded many CDs with prominent musicians. Van Doeselaar taught organ at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, is titulary organist of the Martinikerk in Groningen and of the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw. In 2007 he was awarded the Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Prize in recognition of his services to organ culture.