Merseburg Cathedral Music VII

Merseburg Cathedral Music regularly organises concerts in Merseburg Cathedral. The varied programme ranges from organ concerts on the Ladegast organs to symphonies and chamber concerts in the cloister.

Wednesday, 31 December 2025 | 6 pm
Festive organ music at the end of the year
Organ: Cathedral organist Michael Schönheit

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 op. 46

1st Morgenstemning / morning mood(Allegretto pastorale)

2. Åses død / Åses death (Andante doloroso)

3. anitras dans / anitras dance(Tempo di Mazurka)

4. i Dovregubbens hall / In the hall of the mountain king / (Alla marcia e molto marcato)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Johann Sebastian Bach

Choral arrangement from the Orgelbüchlein

„The old year has passed“ BWV 614

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Pictures of an exhibition

(arrangement for organ by Oskar Gottlieb Blarr) (32 minutes)

  1st promenade

  2. gnome

  3. promenade

  4. the old castle

  5. promenade

  6 The Tuileries (Children playing in a fight)

  7. bydlo

  8th promenade

  9. the ballet of the chicks in their eggshells

10. two Jews, one rich and one poor (Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle)

11th promenade

12. the market place of Limoges

13 Catacombae Sepulchrum Romanum. Con mortuis in lingua mortua

14 The hut of Baba Yaga

            15. the gate of the old Kiev fortress

Tickets are available in advance at the Tourist-Information Merseburg or under www.eventim.de.