Monday–Wednesday

9:00–11:30 October 18-20, 2021

1. North German Baroque

ÖRGRYTE NEW CHURCH

Workshop with Karin Nelson at the world-unique north German baroque organ with four manuals and pedal, 54 stops, meantone temperament and subsemitones in Örgryte new church. Free choice of repertoire by the composers Dietrich Buxtehude and Franz Tunder. Please list which works you have prepared when you register for this workshop.

2. French Romanticism

VASA CHURCH

Workshop with Joris Verdin: 19th-century French organ music before Charles-Marie Widor from the 1850 perspective, with a short introduction on:

– Manual technique
– Pedal technique
– Expression: touch, dynamics, agogics
– Tempo and metronome

The following repertoire will be included as case studies:

César Franck, 12 Pièces for Organ
Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Organ works

3. Johann Sebastian Bach´s Orgelbüchlein

BACKA CHURCH

Workshop with Hans-Ola Ericsson exploring Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orgelbüchlein.
Free choice of organ chorales from Orgelbüchlein.

4. Partimento – a workshop with Edoardo Bellotti

ÖRGRYTE PARISH HALL

The “Partimento Approach”: A different way to learn organ, improvisation, composition and literature.

The topic of "Partimenti" has become very fashionable in recent years, which has changed the perspective of Music Theory and aroused a lot of interest in eighteenth-century music pedagogy and performance practice. At the same time, however, this development created the illusion that we have come to understand once and for all the secret of improvisation. In fact, the Neapolitan "Partimento" of the late eighteenth century is the point of arrival of an educational path that dates back to Renaissance sources. Although not using the term “Partimento”, one of the earliest sources is "L'Organo Suonarino" by Adriano Banchieri (1605).

During our workshop we will talk about these sources and the development of the "Partimento" over almost three centuries. For fruitful participation, Edoardo Bellotti recommends the following activities:

1. Read his article on Adriano Banchieri, which clarifies the theoretical and practical foundations.
2. Try to realize the First Partimento by Fedele Fenaroli harmonically, and then with ornaments, as Derek Remes suggests in his edition.
3. Try to realize the first verses of Bernardo Pasquini’s composition, identifying the patterns present in them and the possibilities of imitations.

These texts and materials will be sent to you when you register for this workshop.

5. Ensemble skills for organists

ARTISTEN

Workshop with the duo clavichord, Ulrika Davidsson and Joel Speerstra.

Organists spend so much time working alone on their repertoire that sometimes musical skills which develop in ensemble musicians can so easily be ignored in our solo practice sessions. Of course, as organists, we spend time accompanying solo musicians and working with choirs. But the 18th-century tradition of reading repertoire together, often on two clavichords, led us to build a duo-clavichord with two instruments in one box. This vis-à-vis instrument allows players to sit across from each other and hear and see the ensemble music being made in an optimal way. It has been an excellent tool for exploring and developing ensemble skills and in previous workshops we have only worked with two people at a time, exploring Bach’s trio sonatas and parts of Bach’s Art of Fugue. This year will try to expand the ensemble and work with the duo clavichord like a string quartet. Four participants at a time will work on clavichord technique for organists in ensembles that will explore organ repertoire from Scheidt, Sweelinck, and Bach, as well as more advanced quartet experiments including Haydn, Beethoven, Bartók, and Ravel.

Thursday–Friday

9:00–11:30 October 21-22, 2021

6. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

ÖRGRYTE NEW CHURCH

Workshop with Kimberly Marshall and Koos van de Linde at the world-unique north German baroque organ with four manuals and pedal, 54 stops, meantone temperament and subsemitones in Örgryte new church.

Participants are requested to use either the edition by Pieter Dirksen and Harald Vogel, Sämtliche Werke für Tasteninstrumente (Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2004–2007) or the earlier edition published by the Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis in 1974. Please choose from the following list of repertoire:

Songs and Dances of the High Renaissance

SONGS
Est-ce Mars
Ik voer al over Rijn (Spagnolette)
Malle Sijmen (doubtful authorship)
Onder een Linde groen

DANCES
Ballo del Granduca
Pavana Hispanica
Pavana Lachrymae (Dirksen edition only)
Pavana Philippi

FREE WORKS
Echo fantasias a3 (octave echoes; no. I:12 in the 1974 edition) and d4 (two-manual echoes; no. I:34 in the 1974 edition)
Toccata G1 (ornamentation and some fingerings to discuss)
Fantasia mit Bindungen (F3; no. I:27 in the 1974 edition), slow durezze e ligature piece

CHORALE VARIATION WORKS

Erbarm dich mein
Puer nobis nascitur (similar to dance variations)

7. Symphonic organ music

ARTISTEN, Ohlin Hall

Workshop with Nathan Laube.

Free choice of repertoire. Please list which works you have prepared when you register for this workshop.

8. Organ for composers                         

BETHLEHEM CHURCH

Workshop for composers and performers of contemporary organ music with Hans-Ola Ericsson and Hampus Lindwall. Several new works have been composed for the inauguration of the new concert hall organ and for the baroque organ at Örgryte new church. In this workshop various approaches to organ composition and the affordances of different instruments are discussed.

9. Modern Swedish Organ Music

ANNEDAL CHURCH

Workshop with Hans Hellsten on Bengt Hambræus Livre d´Orgue 1, Torsten Nilssons Kleine Messe, Sven-David Sandströms Orgelmässa and three organ chorales

10. Organ and Clavier for Pianists

ARTISTEN A503

Workshop with Ulrika Davidsson for pianists who are interested in the world of the organ and related keyboard instruments. Repertoire and materials will be sent to you when you register.

Monday–Friday

14:00–16:30 October 18-22, 2021

Monday October 18, 14:00–16:30

ÖRGRYTE NEW CHURCH

Partimento – Past and Present
Edoardo Bellotti, Peter van Tour, Karin Nelson, Joel Speerstra

Tuesday October 19, 14:00–16:30

ARTISTEN, Ohlin Hall

Sweelinck – Music and Instruments
Kimberly Marshall, Joel Speerstra, Koos van de Linde, Ulrika Davidsson

Wednesday October 20, 14:00–16:30

ARTISTEN, Ohlin Hall

AFTERNOON SEMINAR
French Organ Music: Pre-Franck Perspectives
Joris Verdin, Nathan Laube a.o.

Thursday October 21, 14:00–16:30

ARTISTEN, Ohlin Hall

AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Jeanne Demessieux’s Music in a Contemporary Context
Hampus Lindwall, Kimberly Marshall

Friday October 22, 14:00–16:00

BETHLEHEM CHURCH

AFTERNOON SEMINAR
Organ and New Music
Hans-Ola Ericsson / Hampus Lindwall