Chaconne für Orgel (2022)

Burkhard Mohr (b. 1955) — Chaconne für Orgel (2022)

“Chaconne für Orgel” (2022) was written to mark the birthday of the composer’s longtime colleague, Rainer Noll. The bass line is derived from the musical notes within the names “Rainer Noll — Erbacher Hof” (a-e-e-b-a-c-h-e-h-f) referring to the dedicatee and his historical home.

German composer Burkhard Mohr (b. 1955) was born in Gambach/Oberhessen and was educated in Frankfurt where he studied music and theology. He also attended the Darmstadt new music courses with Stockhausen, Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis. He has worked as a church musician in Frankfurt-Höchst and Wiesbaden and also taught music for many years at the technical university in Frankfurt. Mohr has composed numerous musical works in many genres, including several operas and orchestral works along with much chamber music and music for choir and organ. Mohr’s music usually concerns itself with the blurry boundaries and connections between atonal (12-tone) and tonal (triadic) materials and with the unexpected (or traditionally extended) formal designs that can result from teasing out these connections.