Karin Nelson holds master class for church music students
Karin Nelson, organ teacher at the University of Oslo and Gothenburg, was recently a guest of the Church Music Department at the Liszt Academy. In the master class of the renowned artist, students learned about the Baroque Mass repertoire and the culture of improvisation behind it.
On October 2, Karin Nelson, organ teacher at the Department of Church Music at the University of Gothenburg and Oslo, delivered a master class in church music at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music. The aim was to familiarize students with the repertoire that forms the backbone of organ music in the Baroque Mass, and the culture of improvisation behind it, and also to gain a working knowledge of it, as much as possible within the short time given. Students were presented, through the works of Jan Pieterszon Sweelinck, Vincent Lübeck Jr., Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude and Samuel Scheidt, with historical finger and foot orders, phrasings, and registrations. The art of improvisation was analysed through Georg Böhm's partitas, Scheidemann's preambles and contemporary bass variations. The course was hosted by St. Anna's Church on Batthyányi Square with its three-manual Jehmlich organ.
