ARD INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION

ORGAN

REPERTOIRE

1ST ROUND

a) On the West Organ of the music academy
One of the following works

  • Dietrich Buxtehude, Toccata for organ D minor,
  • BuxWV 155
  • Dietrich Buxtehude, Toccata for organ F major, BuxWV 156
  • Nicolaus Bruhns, Prelude for organ E minor (big)
  • Nicolaus Bruhns, Prelude for organ G major

One of the following works

  • Francois Couperin, Tierce en Taille aus Livres d’orgue:
  • I: Messe à l’usage ordinaire des paroisses pour les festes solemnelles or
    II: Messe pour les convents de religieux et de religieuses
  • Nicolas de Grigny, Récit de tierce en taille
    aus Livre d’orgue
  • Johann Sebastian Bach,
  • A slow and a fast movement from:
  • Trio sonata for organ nr. 5 C major, BWV 529
    or Trio sonata for organ nr. 6 G major, BWV 530

b) On the Kuhn Organ of the music academy

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Variations serieuses D minor, op. 54
  • A work of your choice composed after 1970

semifinal

c) On the Rieger Organ of church St. Michael

  • One or more freely chosen work(s) (no improvisation!);
    Duration 30 minutes
  • Enjott Schneider, Composition commissioned by
    ARD International Music Competition 2026 (World premiere)
    The sheet music will be supplied along with the admission to the competition. The commissioned piece may not be publicly performed prior to the competition.

FINAL

with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

  • Francis Poulenc, Concert for organ, strings and timpani in G minor, FP 93 (ed. Salabert)
  • A romantic or contemporary piece or arrangement for organ solo, no longer than 15 minutes
JURY

Andres Uibo, Estonia, Chairman
Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, France
Thierry Escaich, France
Zuzana Ferjencikova, Slovakia
Peter Kofler, Germany/Italy
Gianluca Libertucci, Italy
Kimberly Marshall, USA

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