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A young artist was rehearsing on the organ at the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg some years ago. I was able to capture some of the music on video and put a short segment of it on You Tube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51hXtODiaE). I have never been able to identify the music and am looking for some help.

Thank you in advance.

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Hello, Rudy,

Wow! That was breathtaking, and I hope you will leave it online after you find out what it is! Or let me know. I have no idea what it is, but suggest you look at the French romanticists such as Charles-Marie Widor. There are a few others as well, but Widor wrote so much! Others include Franck, Vierné, Pierné (two of them), Boellmann, Reger, Dupré, Rheinberger, and Alain. It would be worth your while to investigate all of them anyway, given that they all composed music just as fantastic!

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

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I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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