CARL LOEWE UND DIE ORGEL

Carl Loewe and the organ – this combination may astonish many music lovers today since Loewe is known almost exclusively as the master of the ballad. For several decades now, however, musicians and musicologists have endeavored in a variety of ways to examine the breadth of Loewe’s work and influence. Organ, organ playing, and organ music have not left many visible and audible traces in his oeuvre although he already started to play the organ in his childhood and was recognized as an excellent organist in his long-standing tenure as Music Director of the town Stettin and Cantor and Organist at St. Jacob’s Church there. The present recording – initiated by the International Carl Loewe Society – includes, in addition to several original organ works, arrangements of piano music, ballads, and choral movements from oratorios. The organ in the town church St. Petri in Löbejün, Loewe’s native town, was built in 1901 by the renowned organ builder Wilhelm Rühlmann from Zörbig (Opus 228). It sta