Rolf Zürrer: Diabelli-Contest 2014

Rolf Zürrer I am closely connected to the classical organ music since my high school time. In Schaffhausen, the city of my youth, one of my esteemed teachers at the Münster gave me a first idea of ​​the endless cosmos of the organ world. In those years, my fondness for the works of Johann Sebastian Bach emerged, which has not changed until today.

Since the early eighties I play regularly as a part-time church organist in various reformed congregations in my vicinity. Currently I work in a beautiful mountain church in the town of Rheinau - not far from the famous Rhine Falls.

In the early nineties I started to compose my own music for liturgical use. With the performance of a Good Friday Meditation - you can find several pieces here in Musicalion - I appeared on stage for the first time publically with a greater self-composition in 1998.

More recently, I transfer choral and orchestral works by Johann Sebastian Bach into organ versions and - if necessary - to a solo instrument. "Et incarnatus est" as an example - the beautiful set of the B minor Mass - also sounds very good as an arrangement for organ and oboe.