The Rheinau Organ Circle, founded in 1991, is again offering three organ concerts in the monastery church this year. Daniel Claus (Bern), Johannes Strobl (Muri) and Christoph Grohmann (Rheda) play the two historically valuable, most important monument organs in the monastery church of the canton of Zurich.
Johannes Strobl performed the concert in July. He studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Since 2001 he has been the organist in the Muri monastery church. He loves being able to play historical works on instruments that are just as historically valuable: “The sound effect of the old compositions is most likely to be felt by the listener in this way.” Alternating between the main and choir organ, he played works by Georg Muffat (1653-1704 ), Piotr Drusinski (died 1611), Paul Siefert (1586-1666), Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1735), William Byrd (1540-1623), Johann Ludwig Krebs (1730-1780) and the Bach family, Johann Michael (1648 -1694), Johann Bernhard (1676-1749) and Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), to be heard. Embedded between a fantasy and a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, eight variations by Anton Heiller (1923-1979), who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year, sounded. In his honor, Strobl likes to include his compositions in this year’s concerts. The variations “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”, created in 1972, took a bit of getting used to alongside the historical works. After the second variation, however, the listening interest in the design of this composition prevailed. Muffat’s two toccatas, which were played at the beginning and at the end, were particularly impressive. With enthusiasm and love for early music as well as technical brilliance, Strobl was able to present the unique sound world of the main organ.
The next concert in the Rheinau monastery church is on the program on Friday, October 6th, 8 p.m. with Christoph Grohmann.
2023-07-11 10:02:32
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