Westminster Organ Concert Series

Westminster Presbyterian Church
190 Rugby Road
Charlottesville, Virginia

October 19, 2001 at 8:00 P. M.


István Ruppert
Franz Liszt Academy of Music
Budapest, Hungary


Program

Music by Hungarian composers
and from the European sacred tradition




Five Chorale Preludes (1946)
  Psalm 72
  Psalm 77
  Die Sünden sind vergeben
  Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen
  For All the Saints

 		Jacques van Oortmerssen
Was kann uns kommen an für Not Jacob Praetorius
(1586-1651)
Praetorius Variations Jesper Madsen
(1957-99)

Intermission


Partita No. 1 (1932) István Koloss
Pilgrim’s Chorus Liszt–Wagner
Mozart Changes (1946)
   Grand Chœur

 Zsolt Gardonyi

The Artist

Istvan_Ruppert

István Ruppert is an organ professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where he began teaching in 1987. Born in 1954, he first studied to be a mechanical engineer and was a member of a professional soccer team. He has performed extensively in Hungary and throughout Europe, Japan and the United States. He gives masterclasses and lectures on Liszt’s organ music, and he is an advocate of contemporary Hungarian organ music as well.
The concert is free and open to the public. Ample parking is available behind the church, and the sanctuary is wheelchair-accessible. For more information, please contact Linda Hanson at (434) 963-4690.



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