Baerenreiter Verlag Complete Works for Organ and for Harmonium Volume 1, Early Organ Works / Fragments - Franck - Book

Composer: Cesar Franck
Editor: Christiane Strucken-Paland
Format: Book, Anthology - Urtext
Text Languages: German, English, French
Instrumentation: Organ

Baerenreiter has joined forces with the International Cesar Franck Society to produce a five-volume complete edition of the organ works of Cesar Franck. In addition to all accessible sources, it draws on previously neglected manuscripts, making it possible to offer a reliable musical text based on meticulous text-critical comparisons. Text variants, cases of doubt and editorial decisions are recorded in a comprehensive Critical Commentary.

Volume 1, edited by Christiane Strucken-Paland, is the first publication to contain all of Franck's surviving early organ works, fragments and variants. Special attention has been given to his largest early work, the Fantasy in A major, which was left unpublished during his lifetime and only resurfaced a few years ago. Here Franck already displays his consummate mastery of thematic development.

• Organ works at the forefront of Franck scholarship
• Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) and comprehensive Critical Commentary (Eng)
• With facsimile illustrations