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Der Orgelkönig
Johann Gottlob Schneider

Halgeir Schiager

Der Orgelkönig

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Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181028
Catnr: LWC 1090
Release date: 30 October 2015
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Label
Lawo Classics
UPC
7090020181028
Catalogue number
LWC 1090
Release date
30 October 2015

""All superbly performed by Halgeir Schiager and recorded to the Lawo label’s consistently high standard, this is an interesting and rewarding artifact for organ enthusiasts.""

Music Web International, 12-2-2016
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Organist Halgeir Schiager’s first release on the LAWO Classics label, “Der Orgelkönig”, is a tribute to the German composer and organist Johann Gottlob Schneider (1789-1864).
Schneider is today virtually forgotten, but in his time he was compared to Paganini and given the sobriquet “king of organists”. He represents organ literature between Bach and Mendelssohn, traditionally regarded as a period of decline. However, his works provide important insight into the development of organ music in the transition from Classicism to Romanticism and can be viewed as a missing link between the two aforementioned composers.
Schneider’s music is shown to good advantage on the new Torkildsen organ in Steinkjer Church. Some works are first recordings.
Organist Halgeir Schiagers Tribut an den deutschen Komponisten und Organisten Johann Gottlob Schneider (1789-1864).

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Halgeir Schiager (organ)

HALGEIR SCHIAGER studied organ with Magne Elvestrand in Oslo and later in Munich and Strasbourg with Professors Franz Lehrndorfer and Daniel Roth, respectively. He played his debut concert in Oslo Concert Hall in 1985. Schiager has performed on con­cert stages throughout Europe. In addition to radio recordings in Germany and Norway, he has released critically acclaimed CD recordings, including works of Leif Solberg and Kjell Mørk Karlsen. He also record­ed the complete organ works of the Czech composer Petr Eben for the English label Hyperion. In 2001 he received the Norwegian Music Critics Award. He has premiered works of a number of Norwegian compos­ers, and he serves as jury member for international organ competitions. In 2008 he received a doctor­ate...
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HALGEIR SCHIAGER studied organ with Magne Elvestrand in Oslo and later in Munich and Strasbourg with Professors Franz Lehrndorfer and Daniel Roth, respectively. He played his debut concert in Oslo Concert Hall in 1985. Schiager has performed on con­cert stages throughout Europe. In addition to radio recordings in Germany and Norway, he has released critically acclaimed CD recordings, including works of Leif Solberg and Kjell Mørk Karlsen. He also record­ed the complete organ works of the Czech composer Petr Eben for the English label Hyperion. In 2001 he received the Norwegian Music Critics Award. He has premiered works of a number of Norwegian compos­ers, and he serves as jury member for international organ competitions. In 2008 he received a doctor­ate from the Norwegian Academy of Music, complet­ing a dissertation on aspects of interpretation in the organ works of Gustav Merkel. Since 2007 Schiager has served as organist of Ullern and Paulus-Sofien­berg Congregations in Oslo. He was the initiator of the organ project in Sofienberg Church leading to the acquisition of the new Eule organ in the German Romantic style in 2014. Since 2019 he has also been organist of Ullern congregation, and he arranges an annual organ concert series at Paulus and Sofienberg churches.

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"All superbly performed by Halgeir Schiager and recorded to the Lawo label’s consistently high standard, this is an interesting and rewarding artifact for organ enthusiasts."
Music Web International, 12-2-2016

"Halgeir Schiager closes an important historical gap in the reception history of the organ with this new CD-recording. Confident in style, musicologically informed and at the same time a musician throughout, he gives an insight into an epoch which has been a blind spot on the organ map so far."
BR Klassik, 01-2-2016

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01.
DANK- UND JUBELPRÄLUDIUM
04:50
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
02.
FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 1: I. Fantasia
04:25
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
03.
FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 1: II. Adagio
03:22
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
04.
FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 1: III. Tempo 1 – Fuga (un poco più moto)
05:27
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
05.
FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 3: I. Fantasie
04:04
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
06.
FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 3: II. Larghetto
03:10
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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FANTASIE UND FUGE OP. 3: III. Tempo 1 – Fuga (Allegro maestoso)
06:02
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
08.
ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: I. Andante
01:33
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
09.
ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: II. Andante
00:55
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
10.
ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: III. Andantino
01:44
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: IV. Larghetto
02:35
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: V. Andante
02:02
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: VI. Andante con moto
01:11
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: VII. Andantino
01:31
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: VIII. Adagio
03:35
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: IX. Vivace
01:29
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: X. Vivace
01:02
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: XI. Moderato, maestoso
01:37
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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ZWÖLF ORGELSTÜCKE OP. 4: XII. Allegro con spirito
01:40
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
20.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Thema
01:08
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
21.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 1
01:08
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 2
01:09
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 3
01:08
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 4
01:13
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 5
01:07
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
26.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 6
01:22
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
27.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 7
00:54
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 8
00:58
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
29.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 9
01:17
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
30.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 10
01:13
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
31.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 11
01:14
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 12
01:26
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
33.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 13
01:21
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
34.
THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 14
01:23
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 15
00:59
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 16
01:10
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 17
01:19
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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THEMA MIT VARIATIONEN: Var. 18
01:59
(Johann Gottlob Schneider) Halgeir Schiager
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