25th International Festival “The Days of Organ – Dies orgranorum”: ARNO HARTMANN

Closing evening of the 25th edition of the festival Days of Organ is dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Transcriptions & Fragments of Bach’s music completed or transcribed by famous composers and organists will be preformed by German organist and conductor Arno Hartman.
Concert is supported by Goethe Institut in Belgrade.

BACH – Transcriptions & Fragments

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Einleitung und Fuge aus der Kantate Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21
Transcription by Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Sinfonia No 9, BWV 795
Transcription by Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)

Fantasia in C (Fragment) / BWV 537
Completed by Lorenzo Ghielmi (1959)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, BWV 147
Transcription by Maurice Duruflé (1902–1986)

Ricercar à 6 from Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Transcription by Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774)

Pedal-Exercitium (Fragment), BWV 595
Completed by Ton Koopman (1944)

Contrapunctus I from The art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Transcription by Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013)

Adagio* et Fuga in d / BWV 1001.1 & BWV 539.2 (BWV 1001.2)
*Transcription by Gerard Bunk (1888–1958) from the Sonata for solo violin BWV 1001.
The Fugue is transcribed for organ by Bach.

Jesu, meine Freude (Fragment) / BWV 753
Completed by Wilhelm Middelschulte (1863–1943)

Pièce d‘Orgue à 5 avec la Pédale continue, BWV 572
Très vitement – Gravement – Lentement

Biography:
Arno Hartmann, born in Duisburg (Germany), studied organ, orchestral conducting and church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Concert invitations have taken him to organ festivals throughout Europe, Iceland, the USA, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Argentina and Uruguay. As an organ soloist he has performed with the Orchestra da Camera di Firenze, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, among others. He has conducted several master classes at Emory University in Atlanta and the Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow, where he was most recently a jury member at the “1st Leonid Rojsman Organ Competition”. Several CD productions with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Concilium Musicum Vienna and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra among others, document his musical work. After many years of musical activities in Vienna, where he was responsible for numerous concert broadcasts for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), he was associated with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as an organist. Arno Hartmann worked as director of church music in Bochum for many years. During this time, he was closely associated with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra as a conductor. He is the artistic director of the Bochum Organ Festival.
More info about the artist:
www.arnohartmann.com ,  www.youtube.com/@Arno_Hartmann

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