[Chorale] Masterpieces of chorales. Recommended popular pieces.

Maurice Duruflé “Come, Creator Spirit”Maurice Durufle

Maurice Duruflé “Come, Creator Spirit”

It is Veni Creator Spiritus by the French composer and organist Maurice Duruflé.

While Duruflé is best known for his Requiem, his works as a whole show a pronounced influence of Gregorian chant and Renaissance music.

Preambulum E Dur, Vincent LübeckVincent Lübeck

Preambulum E Dur, Vincent Lübeck

It is the Lübeck Preambulum in E major, composed by Vincent, a German High Baroque composer and organist.

In 1675, he became the organist in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany, and was active as a performer, composer, and teacher, influencing Johann Sebastian Bach as well.

Ave Maria (Caccini’s Ave Maria) (30th Yokohama Choral Fest)Vladimir Fiodorovich Vavilov

Ave Maria (Caccini’s Ave Maria) (30th Yokohama Choral Fest)

This is “Ave Maria” composed by Vladimir Fiodorovich Vavilov from Russia.

Although it became known as Caccini’s Ave Maria, Vavilov himself had labeled it as “author unknown,” and at some point it began to be mistakenly attributed to Giulio Caccini.

D. Buxtehude – Prelude in E major, BuxWV 141 – H. VogelDieterich Buxtehude

D. Buxtehude – Prelude in E major, BuxWV 141 – H. Vogel

This is the Prelude in E major composed by Dieterich Buxtehude, a Danish-born composer and organist.

Dieterich Buxtehude is a representative musician of 17th-century northern Germany and the Baltic Prussian region.

He contributed to the development of the Baroque church cantata and is also regarded as the greatest master of the North German organ school.

Erik Satie ~1905~ ChoralErik Satie

Erik Satie ~1905~ Choral

This is “Choral” by Erik Satie, a composer born in Honfleur in the French Empire.

Erik Satie was a musician who had a major impact on Western music and was known as an “iconoclast” and an “eccentric” of the music world.

He is said to have influenced fellow French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel as well.

The way the harmony doesn’t simply settle into a straightforward C–E–G triad is very Satie-like; it’s music akin to his proposed “furniture music”—present but unobtrusive.

It exists, yet blends into the background like a chorale.

Vater unser im Himmelreich (Georg Böhm)Georg Böhm

Vater unser im Himmelreich (Georg Böhm)

“Vater unser im Himmelreich” was composed by Georg Böhm, a church organist from the Thuringia region of Germany.

In addition to serving as the organist at St.

John’s Church, he was also successful as a composer for keyboard instruments.

“Vater unser im Himmelreich” is a Lutheran hymn, and in German it means “Our Father in Heaven.”

Pavane for a Dead PrincessMaurice Ravel

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Pavane for a Dead Princess, composed by the French composer Maurice Ravel.

It is said that he wrote it with the image of a pavane that a young princess might have danced at the Spanish court.

Its haunting melody is unforgettable once you hear it.