Afternoon Seminar – Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Ludger Lohmann

Göteborg International Organ Festival October 8-19, 2025 A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All! www.organacademy.se/programoversikt SOUND DOCUMENTATION Afternoon Seminar Thursday, October 16, 2025 14:30–16:30 Gothenburg Concert Hall Visionary Organ Music by Franz Liszt and Julius Reubke Ludger Lohmann, lecture demonstration (This seminar is for registered participants only) When Franz Liszt arrived as Capellmeister in Weimar in 1848 the local organists, notably Töpfer, raised his interest in the organ. With his first published organ composition, the utterly visionary Fantasy on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”, till then probably the longest organ piece ever composed, he revolutionized organ music both in a technical and a musical sense. Julius Reubke, then still a teenager, might have listened to the first performance of the piece in 1852. He became one of Liszt's most talented students, both as a pianist and as a composer, and emulated the example of his teacher in two sonatas, one of them for piano. His organ sonata takes clues, not only from “Ad nos” but also from Liszt's piano sonata, and adds the concept of programme music by basing it on lines from Psalm 94. This icon of 19th century organ music shows what a loss the young genius' premature death has meant for the organ world. The seminar will explore the relation between the two masterworks, their musical content and performance implications. (In collaboration with Göteborg Symphony Orchestra) SOUND RECORDING Jon Liinason Göteborg International Organ Festival October 8-19, 2025 A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds – for All! www.organacademy.se/programoversikt