The Heiller Tradition

Reminiscences by Viennese organist Peter Planyavsky, who plays music of his teacher and mentor Anton Heiller, along with other works by Austrian composers.

Program Broadcast dates:

• July 29, 1996

Music played in the program

PLANYAVSKY: Introitus, from Missa Improvisata (1758 Pirchner/Brixen Cathedral, Italy) Motette CD-1054

HEILLER: Prelude & Fugue in A (1949) (1978 Hradetzky/Saint Paul’s Church, Döbling, Austria) Musica Viva LP30-1096

HUMMEL: Prelude & Fugue in A-flat (1978 Hradetzky/Saint Paul’s Church, Döbling, Austria) Preiser LP-135004

HEILLER: Jubilatio (1976); Partita on Vater unser im Himmelreich (1947); Prelude, Interlude & Postlude to Vespers (1979) (1987 Kney/Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN) (American Public Media recording 7/10/89)

PLANYAVSKY: Improvised Caprice, from Carnival of Animals (1986 Mönch & Prachtel/Saint John’s Abbey, Duisburg-Hamborn, Germany) Motette CD-11001

SCHMIDT: Toccata in C (1987 Kney/Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, MN)

 

Peter Planyavsky is organist at Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, professor at the Vienna Musikhochschule, and a world-famous recitalist, recording artist and improvisor.

 

This program was originally issued as #8947 in November 1989.