RHEINBERGER'S ORGAN SONATAS
Played by LEONARD WARNER
From St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate Sonata No. 2 in A Flat, Op. 65
Grave and Allegro; Adagio espressivo
JOSEPH GABRIEL RHEINBERGER
(1839-1901) was an all-round musician and led a distinguished career as organist, teacher, conductor, operatic chorus-master, court-director of music, ' royal professor,' the recipient of honorary degrees and man of mark generally, with Munich as the centre of his sphero of influence. His compositions run to nearly two hundred Opus numbers, the bulk of the Organ Sonatas being in the second hundred and belonging to the period of his maturity.