Franz Schmidt, Buch mit sieben Siegeln, Fugue

The organ version of the fugue of the seals. This is an interlude before the first seal is opened. There is a little bit too much pedal in the piano version, but the sustaining mode of the pipes has to be managed somehow.

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• fugue
• piano
• organ
• classical

[TheMaxVienna]

hans, sehr beeindruckend ;-)

[costep]

@TheMaxVienna

Vielen Dank!

[NOSEhow2LIV]

What a marvellous composer, and much of the harmonic quality comes thru well, even with these limitations, ( i like your realistic irony about pedal/pipes). To find someone courageous enough to put these trancribed versions on YT is remarkable. Bravo!

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@NOSEhow2LIV

I am very enjoyed by your comment. Sometimes the limitations tend to go away entirely when I remember that my father must have written the transcription shortly before or after WW2 and it was the only way, to hear the music at all.

[SadShires1]

Very courageous to perform a piece from this magnificent work (one of the great masterpieces of the last century).

Now I'd like to hear a piano performance of the mighty fugue from the Sixth Seal, and possibly the whole of Frotzler's (not altogether happy) piano-solo arrangement of the Third Symphony.

Franz Schmidt a "late romantic" my eye!

[costep]

@SadShires1 I have still not managed to practice the other fugue, but I will eventually post something by F. Schmidt again. Don't give up the hope:)

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@saxolady

Danke für diese Meinung

[saxolady]

wow, das ist unglaublich. very expressiv..and impressiv!