{"product_id":"lwc1078-elementa-pro-organo","title":"Elementa Pro Organo","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn his organ works, Egil Hovland took the pulse of his age as he broke new ground. This can also be said of his orchestral, choral, and chamber music, which he composed in abundance. The selections on this album reflect his intense development from a neoclassical enthusiasm for Baroque to radical modernism, and then to what Hovland himself called an about-turn. He told university students in 1974: “Towards the 1970s I reverted to a Romantic or neo-friendly style.”\u003cbr\u003eCHORALE PARTITA NO. 1. SIX VARIATIONS ON GJØR DØREN HØY, GJØR PORTEN VID \u003cbr\u003eOPUS 7 (1947) \u003cbr\u003eWhen Egil Hovland completed his organ studies in 1948, he had already composed his first partita, a piece clearly influenced by his teacher, Per Steenberg (1870-1947).\u003cbr\u003eIn his composition course, \u003cem\u003evocal polyphony, \u003c\/em\u003eSteenberg had ascetic ideals represented most importantly by Palestrina and Renaissance polyphony. This purified, refined style became an ideal for many young composers such as Hovland, Conrad Baden, and Knut Nystedt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eSteenberg left behind the manuscript of an alternative hymnal in which he had omitted close to one hundred hymns because they were \u003cem\u003esuperfluous, less effective, and even inadequate in a religious or musical context. \u003c\/em\u003eIt was published by his students in 1949.\u003cbr\u003eThe variations on \u003cem\u003eGjør døren høy \u003c\/em\u003ebear the influence of Steenberg’s conservative style, whereby the composition of a chorale must follow all the rules of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony. The work received such a positive reception that it was performed in Copenhagen in 1947 at the Festival Week of Nordic Music Students.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lawo Classics","offers":[{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738920235332,"sku":"LWC1078-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738920268100,"sku":"LWC1078-9","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738920300868,"sku":"LWC1078-10","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738920333636,"sku":"LWC1078-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738920366404,"sku":"LWC1078-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738920399172,"sku":"LWC1078-17","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 5ch Surround","offer_id":56738920431940,"sku":"LWC1078-18","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56738920464708,"sku":"LWC1078-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57308731179332,"sku":"LWC1078-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335023665476,"sku":"LWC1078S1417","price":32.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo \u0026 5ch Surround","offer_id":57335023698244,"sku":"LWC1078S1517","price":34.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/LWC1078.jpg?v=1790139164","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/lwc1078-elementa-pro-organo","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}