Josef Rheinberger, roughly contemporary with Brahms, is known mostly for his organ music, which presents a rather forbidding facade to non-organists. In a time when music had begun to be obsessed with the march of its own history, and the Brahmsians and the perfect Wagnerites were contending over the cadence, a composer like Rheinberger soon fell by the wayside. He was, at least in terms of tonality, a conservative, and his career was largely unconnected with the emerging musical institutions of the late nineteenth century; ...
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Josef Rheinberger, roughly contemporary with Brahms, is known mostly for his organ music, which presents a rather forbidding facade to non-organists. In a time when music had begun to be obsessed with the march of its own history, and the Brahmsians and the perfect Wagnerites were contending over the cadence, a composer like Rheinberger soon fell by the wayside. He was, at least in terms of tonality, a conservative, and his career was largely unconnected with the emerging musical institutions of the late nineteenth century; he was, in fact, one of the last beneficiaries of the system of noble patronage, serving as court composer to Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria. Yet "conservative" is not quite the right word for the a cappella sacred works heard on this lovely release. The mood of the music is bright, and Rheinberger avails himself of chromatic harmony even less here than in his organ music. However, these compact pieces have organic shapes, not the deadweights of traditional forms. Rheinberger's...
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