The big evening concert: "BACH - the beginning and end of all music" II

The Merseburg Organ Festival is taking place for the 53rd time, with the magnificent Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral taking centre stage. From 9 to 17 September 2023, the audience can look forward to numerous concerts with top-class organists. Under the title "AppetitAnReger - Max Reger on his 150th birthday", we will be commemorating the important German composer of the late Romantic period, Max Reger, in 2023.

The big evening concert
"BACH - the beginning and end of all music" II
On the Ladegast organs: Arvid Gast, organist at the Jakobikirche in Lübeck

Tickets are available in advance via reservix.de, adticket.com and in the Tourist-Information Merseburg.

Program

Max Reger (1873-1916)
From: Suite for organ in E minor "Den Manen Joh.Seb. Bachs" op. 16
No. 1 Introduction and Fugue in E minor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903
in the arrangement for organ by Max Reger

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasy and Fugue in G minor BWV 542

Max Reger
Fantasy and Fugue on BACH op. 46