International Organ Summer in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja <\/p>\n
Saturday 17. August at 12:00 – 12:30<\/strong><\/p>\n Johannes Geffert, concert organist from Bonn, Germany<\/p>\n Performing pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich H\u00e4ndel, Robert Schumann and Andreas Willscher.<\/p>\n Tickets 2500 ISK<\/p>\n <\/p>\n International Organ Summer in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja <\/p>\n Sunday 18. August at 17:00 – 18:00<\/strong><\/p>\n Johannes Geffert, concert organist from Bonn, Germany<\/p>\n Performs pieces by Pablo Bruna, Antonio Vivaldi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Camille Saint-Saens and Felix Mendelssohn Barholdy. <\/p>\n Tickets 3000 ISK<\/p>\n Born 1951 as son of a highly recognized organist and director of church music, Johannes Geffert was brought up in the traditions of his profession. He studied with Michael Schneider and Nicolas Kynaston. <\/p>\n From 1974 until 1979 Geffert was organist in Aachen and conductor of the Aachen Bach society, where he founded the Festival \u201cAachener Bachtage\u201d. 1980 he was appointed director of church music at the Kreuzkirche Bonn, the largest church in former capital of West Germany, there he was also organist titulaire of the city\u2019s concert hall \u201cBeethovenhalle\u201d. <\/p>\n As a professor for organ and improvisation at the State Conservatory of Music in Cologne from 1997 until 2015, and he was also head of the department for protestant church music. <\/p>\n Johannes Geffert has performed at many international organ festivals in <\/p>\n Europe, Japan, South America, and in the United States. His CDs have achieved highest acclaim. In numerous competitions for organ playing he has been asked to be a member of the jury. In 1991 he founded the \u201cJohann Christian Bach-Academy\u201d, an orchestra for performances with period instruments. As an editor he supervised a series of publications with romantic organ music by American and British composers, and he has published some of his own Liszt transcriptions for organ with Schott and written articles on musical issues in various magazines. Geffert is honorary Vice-President of the British Organists Association IAO and board member of the Beethovenhaus Bonn. <\/p>\n Programme:<\/p>\n Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 George Friedrich H\u00e4ndel 1685-1759 <\/strong><\/p>\n From: Concerto Nr. 13 Larghetto Allegro <\/p>\n Robert Schumann 1810-1856 5. \u2018Nicht zu schnell\u2019 (not too fast) <\/p>\n Andreas Willscher 1955- Pablo Bruna 1611-1679 Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 Allegro Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 Franz Liszt 1811-1886 Camille Saint-Saens 1835-1921 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1809-1847 transcription by W. T. Best 1826-1897 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Organ Summer in Hallgr\u00edmskirkja Saturday 17. August at 12:00 – 12:30 Johannes Geffert, concert organist from Bonn, Germany Performing pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-johannes-geffert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listvinafelag.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Johannes Geffert<\/h4>\n
Saturday August 17th at 12 pm<\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>Toccata and fugue in d-minor BWV 565 <\/p>\n
\n\u2018Cuckoo and Nightingale\u2019 <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>From: 6 studies in canonic form op. 56 4. \u2018Innig\u2019 (heartfelt) <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2018My Beethoven\u2019 a concert rag for organ <\/p>\nSunday August 18th at 5 pm<\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>Tiento de secondo tono sobre la Letania de la Virgen <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Concerto in a-minor Adagio <\/p>\n
\norgan transcription J. S. Bach <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Adagio F-Major
\nFrom Suite for a mechanical clock WoO 31 <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Legend I \u2018St. Francis preaching to the birds\u2019 organ transcription by J. Geffert <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Fantasie II in D flat – major op. 101 <\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Overture to the sacred Drama \u2018Athalia\u2019 <\/p>\n