Auden Variations, Op. 136

Description

Organ — A chorale, a setting of poet W.H. Auden's " Our Father, Whose Creative will" from Persichetti's HYMNS AND RESPONSES FOR THE CHURCH YEAR, is the theme of this intricate set of 13 variations. Commissioned for the 1978 Hartt College of Music International Organ Music Festival, this is a work of many contrasts, both in the colors employed and in the moods of the variations. For studios, schools, colleges, professional. Medium difficult.