Vernet-Meckler Organ Duet, Quoirin organ, Evreux (France).
Transcription for organ duet, from the piano accompaniments by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), and the piano duet transcription by Carl Reinecke (1824-1910).
Score soon available (Lyrebird Music).
Pictures : Ulrick Théaud

Johann Sebastian Bach was a great transcriber of his contemporaries’music as well as of his own. By its architecture, Bach’s work is not related to the timbre of its vector, it is universal, timeless and forward-looking. That is why it is natural that it inspired so much the musicians who succeeded him. From its creation till the present days, his music has always been commented on and even amplified. It unites mathematics with metaphysics in art and offers itself as a legacy to the alchemist-composers who never cease metamorphosing it, transforming it, transmuting it. No iconoclastic approach in such an appropriation but a will to pay a tribute and seek communion with this immense creator.
While Bach transcribed the Fugue of Sonata BWV 1001 for solo Violin, in a Fugue for Organ BWV 539, he never transcribed the Chaconne of Partita BWV 1004 for solo Violin. With this monumental masterpiece, he may have knowingly wished to leave a framework which each transcriber after him could take over and enhance with his own vocabulary ; harmony is merely suggested and, the same way a hologram appears three-dimensional only under the incidence of a light ray, this piece can undergo many possible transformations after many composers’inspiration. And it is a fact that the Chaconne was profoundly transformed by a wide range of aesthetic influences : Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn each added a piano accompaniment (both very different from each other), Carl Reinecke transcribed it for piano four hands, Johannes Brahms for piano left hand, Ferrucio Busoni for the piano, Leopold Stokowski for symphonic orchestra, etc…
For this transcription for organ duet, and according to our own taste, we have mixed the original score with the piano accompaniments by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), and the piano duet transcription by Carl Reinecke (1824-1910) which was already very inspired by Schumann and Mendelssohn.

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