Franck: Complete Works for Organ and Hamonium - Volume 1 (Early Organ Works / Fragments)

Description

Bärenreiter has joined forces with the International César Franck Society to produce a five-volume complete edition of the organ works of César Franck. in addition to all accessible sources, it draws on previously neglected manuscripts, making it possible to offer a reliable musical text based on meticulous text-critical comparisons. Text variants, cases of doubt and editorial decisions are recorded in a comprehensive Critical Commentary.

Volume 1, edited by Christiane Strucken-Paland, is the first publication to contain all of Franck's surviving early organ works, fragments and variants. Special attention has been given to his largest early work, the Fantasy in A major, which was left unpublished during his lifetime and only resurfaced a few years ago. Here Franck already displays his consummate mastery of thematic development.

Pieces

• Piece in E-flat Major (1849), CFF 49
• Piece (Fantasie) in A Major (1854), CFF 51
• Andantino in G Minor (1856 / 57), CFF 54a/b, FWV 25a/b
• Piece (Fantasie) in C Major (1856), CFF 53a
• Piece in E-flat Major [Fragment] (1854), CFF 50
• Prière [Fragment] (1854), CFF 52