Let the browser beware: Mozart wrote few or no actual works for the organ solo. Why this should be so bears further investigation, for he was a church musician for a good-sized chunk of his career, dazzled audiences with his organ improvisations, and is even said to have referred to the organ as the king of instruments. The Mozart works on this release are a combination of small keyboard pieces or fragments that may have been intended for an organ, the Adagio for glass harmonica, K. 356, and several works for mechanical ...
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Let the browser beware: Mozart wrote few or no actual works for the organ solo. Why this should be so bears further investigation, for he was a church musician for a good-sized chunk of his career, dazzled audiences with his organ improvisations, and is even said to have referred to the organ as the king of instruments. The Mozart works on this release are a combination of small keyboard pieces or fragments that may have been intended for an organ, the Adagio for glass harmonica, K. 356, and several works for mechanical organ or mechanical clock, a music-box-like instrument bearing little resemblance to the 1798 Johann Nepomuk Holzhay instrument played by Christian Brembeck on this recording. Indeed, the mechanical organ pieces are pretty much overwhelmed by the full-size instrument, although Brembeck delivers a spooky little rendition of the glass harmonica piece. More interesting than the Mozart pieces are the works by the lesser composers on the disc. It may be that there will be galant organ music...
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