In 2016 in celebration of Max Reger’s death anniversary, in entire Europe were organised many concerts and sympsiums. Their purpose was bringing closer the phenomenon of Max Reger’s music. Nowadays his organ music is still detached from the context of the original instruments which were in use in the period of late romantic. This article introduces the profil of Max Reger`s organ works, specially focusing on their`s musical language. It discuss also specific notation style with important aspect of complex dynamics gradation system. Reger’s instructions are related to the sound of late romantic german pipe-organs and their`s voicing characteristic. In the last part of the article, possible performance problems on contemporary instruments are discussed.
In 1947 F. Smend has developed the theory about numerological symbolism in Bach`s music. In similar way to the cabalistic gematria, he discovered, the coinherence of symbolic name Bach as the number 14, and J.S.Bach as 41. He claimed, that it is possible to find that Bach has used that symbolism in his compositions. The exaple of this operation is possible to find in the first part of ClavierUbung: this work is made from 41 movements, and was published as the first printed work from Bach in his life. And Bach started to write this work, as he was 41 years old. On the Hausmann painting, Bach has got the manuscript contain fragment of 14 canons. The painting was made because of Bach`s joining as 14th member to the Mitzler Society. Those simple conclusions lead to establish the international searching group for common platform for music, theology and symbolical numbers in Bach`s ouvre. This group has mainly researched the text-based works, and didn`t focus on the correspondence among the series-work of Bach. Profesor Christoph Bossert with his over 20 years of his research work discovered the special code, which Bach might to used for his compositions. Based on that discoveries, he constitute the Bach-Societät group, which is focused on researches and discovering connections among the theology, symbolism and musical structures in whole Bach`s music.
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In 1947 Friedrich Smend has developed the theory about numerological symbolism in Bach’s music. In similar way to the cabalistic gematria, he discovered, the coinherence of symbolic name “Bach” as the number 14, and “J.S.Bach” as 41. He claimed that it is possible to find that Bach has used that symbolism in his compositions. The exaple of this operation is possible to find in the first part of ClavierÜbung: this work is made from 41 movements, and was published as the first printed work from Bach in his life. And Bach started to write this work as he was 41 years old. On the Hausmann painting, Bach has got the manuscript contain fragment of 14 canons. The painting was made because of Bach’s joining as 14th member to the Mitzler Society. Those simple conclusions lead to establish the international searching group for common platform for music, theology and symbolical numbers in Bach’s ouvre. This group has mainly researched the text-based works, and did not focus on the correspondence among the series-work of Bach. Profesor Christoph Bossert with his over 20 years of his research work discovered the special code, which Bach might to used for his compositions. Based on that discoveries, he constitute the Bach-Societät group, which is focused on researches and discovering connections among the theology, symbolism and musical structures in whole Bach’s music.
This paper is an attempt to find the specific word‑and‑music interrelations in Bach’s organ chorale Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich BWV 732. The starting point is the quotation by the composer originated from his Bible in which he described the music as “pious.” Since the examined piece is an arrangement of the Lutheran song based on the melody of the introit Puer natus est nobis, the verses of the first stanza have been confronted with a Gregorian antiphon. In effect, a chiasm has been found, noticeable in the combination with Bach’s arrangement of the third and fourth verses. The applied method of analyzing the mutual interrelations between words and music allows to observe in further parts of the paper the astounding compatibility of compositional techniques with particular words and syllables to demonstrate at the same time a high degree of difficulty in translating lyrics into other languages.
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Praca jest próbą odnalezienia szczegółowych zależności słowno-muzycznych w Bachowskim chorale organowym Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich BWV 732. Punkt wyjścia stanowi cytat Bacha pochodzący z jego egzemplarza Biblii, traktujący o muzyce określonej jako „nabożna”. Ponieważ analizowany utwór jest opracowaniem luterańskiej pieśni opartej na melodii introitu Puer natus est nobis, wersy pierwszej strofy skonfrontowano z gregoriańską antyfoną. Efektem jest znalezienie chiazmu, widocznego w połączeniu Bachowskiego opracowania trzeciego i czwartego wersu. Przyjęta metoda analizy wzajemnych powiązań słowno‑muzycznych pozwala w dalszej części pracy zaobserwować zdumiewającą kompatybilność użytych środków kompozytorskich z poszczególnymi słowami i sylabami, wskazując jednocześnie na wysoki stopień trudności przekładu na inne języki.