Friedrich Ernst Richter, Präludium Es dur

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This is my entry for the Secrets of Organ Playing Contest, week 42. I play one of the upcoming publications on my website: the prelude from "Präludium und Fuge, Es Dur" by Ernst Friedrich Richter.

I recently finished the first version of the score for this composition from the manuscript source. Playing through a first version of a score is my way of proofreading. Most typos are easily spotted that way. Yesterday I started 'proofreading' this prelude. As it actually went very well, I decided to make it my entry for this week's contest.

There are lots of chord passages in this, composition, four part writing, tuplet sixteenth alternating with regular ones, so I thought it would be quite a hard piece to practise. Imagine my surprise when it actually went very well on first play though. It's one of those pieces that fit my hands perfectly. I still don't know what makes that a piece is well suited to my hands. Or perhaps I should say it the other way around: what makes that my hands are well suited for certain compositions and much less for others.

I do know what makes compositions difficult: contrapuntal writing. The fugue that belongs to this fugue will take a lot longer than one morning to practise and record...

That it is still a new piece to me can be seen in bar 19: I forgot to change manuals in time. I am training myself to keep playing when things like that happen. You know the movie "Finding Nemo"? One of the main characters, Dory, sings a song in that movie, with the words "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming". That's what I keep in mind when I make mistakes like that: "Just keep playing, just keep playing".

In bar 24 my initial transcription has a flat for the right hand and a for the left hand. While playing I decided that the a flat was wrong, because the a sounded more beautiful to my ears. Checking with the manuscript however, shows it should be a flat. Now I know what my biggest problem with later performances of this composition is going to be: play a flat's in bar 24 and not a's.

Score: no score yet... :-)


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Sounds fantastic. That reverb really sounds like you are in a cathedral! Beautifully played.

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I used a sample set of a real organ in a real church. That's probably why it sounds so realistic.

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I fully expected this piece to be baroque but I was pleasantly surprised! Another one for me to learn. Beautifully played.

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I try to avoid becoming a one-trick pony. Richter was a very old fahioned composer even in his own days. That probably why I feel comfartable playing his music. So, a one-trick pony after all...?

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It's amazing that even in 19th century some people were writing music which is not so different from the Baroque period. !organduo 500

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