The Orgelbüchlein Project is a collective composition project aiming to complete Bach’s unfinished manuscript known as ‘Orgelbüchlein’. In the ‘Little Organ Book’, Bach laid out a complete hymnal of short organ chorale preludes, 164 in all, but only completed 46 of them. Why the remaining 118 were left as blank pages, with only a title at the head, remains a mystery, but they inspried organists William Whitehead to found the Orgelbüchlein Project, in which contemporary composers are invited to contribute a piece to completing the collection.
The resulting collection, to be published in six volumes, represents a cross-section of the most interesting composers at work today across Europe
More information about the project is available at www.orgelbuechlein.com
List of Composers
- Nigel Allcoat
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Sally Beamish
- Christian von Blohn
- Timothy Byram-Wigfield
- John Butt
- Stephen Hough
- Juste Janulyte
- Simon Johnson
- Jonas Jurkunas
- Daniel Kidane
- Till Alexander Körber
- Ronny Krippner
- David Matthews
- Nico Muhly
- Anthony Powers
- Tarik O’Regan
- Roxanna Panufnik
- Poul Ruders
- Sven-David Sandström
- Robert Saxton
- Peter Shepherd
- Andrew Synnot
- Zsigmond Szathmáry
- William Whitehead
