This week is the festival of St. Liborius in the complete city of Paderborn (GER). St. Liborius was a bishop in Le Mans (F), he became the patron of the archdiocese of PB and his relics are in the bishops cathedral. For the great celebrity the reliquary casket is brought into the cathedral with a solemn procession.
It is a tradition to play the "Libori-Tusch" during this cortege. It is a triple fanfare (borrowed from Mendelssohn-'Paulus') played by a brass-ensemble. Prior to that fanfares the cathedral-organist makes three virtuosic improvisations on the mighty organ of PB-Cathedral (IV/151). The organ-music has to end on a dominat-sept-chord for the next "Libori-Tusch".
I tried to make my own version of a "Libori-Tusch". I took the three PB-Libori-anthems as the themes for the three improvisations. The triple fanfare is the best exercise for the grandiose Tuba-stops in the solo-division of the Hereford-Willis-Organ.
I hope you will enjoy the music more than my inaccurate English.
ESchoen
Infos about the PB-Organ:
http://www.erzbistum-paderborn.de/medien/anhaenge/k1_m6520.pdf
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