Experience with us the musical excitement of German Romantic music as Jacob features almost exclusively music by Heinrich Reimann (1850-1907). He also played Reimann’s music in his DMA doctoral thesis at the University of Kansas. This promises to be a delightful program performed on the Martin Ott pipe organ at Atonement Lutheran Church.
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Heinrich Reimann, one of Berlin’s most significant composers and musicians, played the organ with the Berlin Philharmonic and played the largest organ in Berlin at the time at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church which was destroyed in WWII. He is most well-known for his Chorale Fantasia on “How Brightly Shines the Morning Star” (“Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”). He also wrote several biographies on Bach, Schumann, and Brahms and was also a music critic.
PROGRAM
• Toccata op. 23 - Heinrich Reimann
• Selections from Studien op. 8 - Heinrich Reimann
• "Kol Nidrei" op. 47 for Cello and Organ - Max Bruch, arr. by Reimann (Eman Chalshotori, cello)
• Phantasie über den Choral "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" op. 25 - Heinrich Reimann
Dr. Hofeling is currently organist at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Shawnee, Kansas.
Covid precautions at Atonement are as follows:
• reduced seating capacity
• masks must be always worn
• social distancing
• pews taped off
The Martin Ott Pipe Organ (Opus 97, 2007) has 3 manuals, 37 stops, and 49 ranks. The Rückpositiv was initially omitted in 1997 to keep the organ costs within the budget. In 2006 this division was completed. The Rückpositiv is suspended over the balcony manifested in the balcony railing.