Livestreamed Organ Recital XVII by Jonathan Vaughn from The Frantz Chapel, Christ Church, Greenwich CT Friday, August 21, 2020 at 5.30 p.m. ET (10.30 p.m. BST)

Prelude and Fugue in E minor (the lesser) - Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)

Mein junges Leben hat ein End - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Cantilena (Sonata no 11 in D flat) - Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

Suite Gothique - Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897) Introduction Menuet Gothique Prière à Notre-Dame Toccata

Nikolaus Bruhns’s surviving corpus of music is achingly small, but demonstrates he was a musician of great stature in the pre-Bach period who is said to have played the violin while accompanying himself using the pedals. His Preludes and Fugues alternate between sections of fantasia and fugal writing.

Sweelinck, the most famous keyboard player of his generation, was organist at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, like his father before him and his son after. A contemporary of Gabrieli, he was one of the figures who saw in the baroque era, and his students included Peter Hasse, Jacob Praetorious and the Scheidt brothers. The set of variations on the folk tune My young life has an end is his best-known keyboard work, and, being on a secular theme, would probably have been intended for virginal.

The Liechtensteinian composer Josef Rheinberger studied and taught in Munich, and had distinguished students including Horatio Parker, Richard Strauss and Wilhelm Furtwängler. His music was influenced by figures such as Mendelssohn and J. S. Bach, and displays a high level of craftsmanship. He intended to write 24 organ sonatas, but died before completing the set.

Léon Boëllmann grew up in Alsace and entered the Niedermeyer school at the age of nine. He studied with Eugène Gigout, and married his niece. They had three children, who were adopted by Gigout after the couple’s premature deaths. The Choristers’ Organ The Choristers’ Organ, in the Frantz Chapel at Christ Church, Greenwich, was built by Visser- Rowland of Houston TX (opus 78) for St Thomas More Catholic Church, Darien CT, in 1986. The instrument was no longer needed at St Thomas More following its reordering, and was moved to Christ Church in the summer of 2019 by Meloni and Farrier Organbuilders.

Hauptwerk Pedal Prinzipal 8’ Subbass 16’ Rohrflöte 8’ (1-12 from Subbass) Prinzipal (HW) 8’ Oktav 4’ Gedeckt (Ext) 8’ Waldflöte 2’ Octav (HW) 4’ Sesquialter II (TC) 2 2/3’ (double draw) Fagott 16’ Mixtur IV 1 1/3’ Trompet 8’ Hauptwerk to Pedal Brustwerk to Pedal Brustwerk (expressive) Tremulant (affecting whole organ) Gemshorn 8’ Zimbelstern Celeste (TC) 8’ Coupler Manual Kleingedeckt 4’ Prinzipal 2’ Larigot 1 1/3’ Rohrschalmei 8’