New Edition of the Complete Organ Works

The publication of the fourth volume concludes the New Edition of the Complete Organ Works by Hugo Distler. The organ partita “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland“ is already available in a shorter version (Choral – Bicinium – Ricercare und Satz, (Distler: Organ Works II (BA 9232), p.7). Here it is published for the first time in its original, larger form containing a chorale, eight variations and the older ricercar.

This scholarly-critical edition includes a comprehensive Foreword on Distler’s organ works, a detailed Critical Commentary (Ger/Eng) as well as a complete facsimile of the source material and registration examples from Distler’s favorite organ at Lübeck’s St Jakobi Church.