Organ concert for Walpurgis Night

About the Event

From his incidental music to Goethe's 'Faust' for the Vienna Burgtheater (1976), Petr Eben compiled a nine‐movement suite three years later, which he arranged for solo organ. Through the way it is set to music, essential scenes of the tragedy are linked and re‐referenced in a compelling cyclical context. The treatment of the organ is peculiar, appearing here not only in all its tonal dignity, but also as its own distorted image, as a barrel organ or even an orchestrion. Between the organ movements, Max Hopp reads excerpts from 'Faust' to accompany each of the following movements.