Die Weiße Rose (Introduzione e passacaglia per organo) (2017)

Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) — Die Weiße Rose (Introduzione e passacaglia per organo) (2017)

“Die Weiße Rose” (Introduzione e passacaglia per organo) (2017) is inspired by The White Rose, a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany that was led by students and a faculty member from the University of Munich.

Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) is an Italian composer. Educated at the Conservatory in Milan, she has composed in many genres, developing a personal language that is concerned with the blend of past and present. Her compositions have been performed frequently around the world. Ferrari’s music appears on several CD recordings, including four all-Ferrari organ CDs: three recorded by Carson Cooman (2014/16) and another by Peter Clark (2015). She served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China and is currently professor of music composition at the European School of Economics in Florence, Italy.