Passacaglia and Fugue in D Minor

Full title Passacaglia and Fugue in D Minor / Passacaglia und Fuge D-moll für Orgel
Date composed 1934
Details Composition completed February 1934.
Performance duration: ca. 8 min.
Manuscript sources NYPL JOB 73-157, working holograph score (17 pages), with composer's note on title page: Wien, Jänner 1934. This date is contradicted by internal datings of original and reworked endings, both endings of the Passacaglia are dated 9./II. 1934; both of the Fugue are dated 18./II. 1934. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 64, a clean holograph score (17 pages), with composer's note on the title page: Passacaglia D-moll für Orgel / Karl Weigl.
Availabiity Performance score (Composers Facsimile Edition, 1958) available from ACA and KWF.
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