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    3 Sonatas for Organ by Lachner

    Now these are interesting, I reckon I could fumble my way through the slower movements and look forward to doing that at my College organ.

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    Lachner was a well-known and prolific composer in his day, though he is not now considered a major composer. His work, influenced by Beethovenn and his friend Schubert is regarded as competent and craftsman-like, but is now generally little known. Among his greatest successes were his opera Caterina Cornaro (1841), his requiem and his seventh orchestral suite (1881). In the present day it may be his three sonatas for organ (Opp. 175, 176, 177) as well as chamber music, in particular his music for winds, that receives the most attention, though his string quartets and some of his eight symphonies have been performed and recorded. His songs, some of which are set to the same texts that Schubert used in his songs, contributed to the development of the German Lied.
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    Lovely pieces ... just reading through them and now I want to try them at the organ at my earliest convenience. Especially like the Andante of the first sonata - will make for a nice prelude at some point in time.
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    Lars, my dear friend, yes...I thought that, too. I'm going to have a go at them very soon.

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