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Suite in G

for organ op.6 (1986)

It was the discovery of the great works of the organ repertoire that gave me the desire to write something for that instrument. In particular, it is the Organ Concerto by Francis Poulenc that had the strongest influence on the style and the harmonies of my own suite. There are six movements all in the tonality of g minor:

• Prélude
• Méditation
• Pastorale
• Intermède
• Prière
• Toccata

Incidentally, the shape and character of the six movements is close to Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, a piano suite that I had practised at that time! As in this work, the second movement was intended to be a fugue, which finally turned out to become a Méditation on a theme by Benjamin Britten (Miles' aria Malo, malo from the opera The Turn of the Screw).

The whole of the work was roughly written in 1986, but like many of my works, the Suite in G endured numerous revisions. Finally, it has been created on the 8th November 2002 by Joachim Dorfmüller at the organ of the Dominikanerkirche in Münster, Germany.