Annette Richards, organ: What happened to German organ music in the decades after the death of J. S. Bach? Despite Bach’s legacy as a teacher, and the remarkable repertoire of his works transmitted in manuscript by his students, relatively few substantial compositions for the organ appear to have been written by the later generation of organists. Yet C. P. E. Bach, J. L. Krebs, and others, did leave a body of organ music that charms, thrills, and amply repays close listening. This program presents some of that music, along with J. S. Bach’s magisterial set of variations on “Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig,” BWV 768, a work that, though written right at the beginning of the 18th century has never gone out of fashion or favor.

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