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L\u00f6w, Fuga, c moll<\/a><\/p>\nPerformance<\/strong>
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Rudolf L\u00f6w (1832 – 1898) was a Swiss organist and composer. He was a student of Carl Ferdinand Becker (Orgel) and Ignaz Moscheles (Piano). In 1864 he became first organist in the newly build Elisabethkirch. As composer he wrote mostly in a style inspired by the old masters of counterpoint like Bach and H\u00e4ndel. With the exception of a few Lieder, his output as a composer was never printed. <\/p>\n
The S\u00e4chsische Landes- und Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek in Dresden posesses a manuscript of 12 organ compositions by L\u00f6w’s hand. It is his opus 1, which he dedicated to his teacher Carl Ferdinand Becker. Almost a year ago I published the choral prelude sfrom this manuscript. Now it is time for the reamaining three compositions in this manuscript. <\/p>\n
The fugue in c minor is the first of these three. It is intruiging to note that each time one of the voices plays the fugue theme, it is silent for one or more bars before it starts playing the theme. Almost as if L\u00f6w was afraid the listener would not notice the theme otherwise and draws the listener’s attention to it. <\/p>\n
The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Cavaill\u00e9-Coll organ in the St. Omer church in the city of St. Omer (http:\/\/www.sonusparadisi.cz\/en\/organs\/france\/st-om.html).<\/p>\n
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