Organ music

[edeniz]

Hello,

I know it's a very short passage, but perhaps someone recognizes this bit of organ music anyway? Pretty sure it's a well-known one, but for the life of me, I can't name it. I've added it as attachment, but it's can also be listened to here:

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/EwjZ1Iqjce/unknown_organ_music__1_.html

Thanks in advance for any and all help! 

[Cato]

Hello,

I know it's a very short passage, but perhaps someone recognizes this bit of organ music anyway? Pretty sure it's a well-known one, but for the life of me, I can't name it. I've added it as attachment, but it's can also be listened to here:

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/EwjZ1Iqjce/unknown_organ_music__1_.html

Thanks in advance for any and all help! 

Sorry!  Very difficult with only a 10 second excerpt!  Where did you hear it?  At church? 

You might try some of the most famous composers for organ: my impression is that the piece is not by Bach, although I could be wrong.  Try some of the French composers: Widor, Franck, Guilmant etc.

It should be a pleasant search!

[Scion7]

It could be Liszt.

[edeniz]

First, thank you, Cato, Scion7, for your replies.

Sorry!  Very difficult with only a 10 second excerpt!  Where did you hear it?  At church? 

You might try some of the most famous composers for organ: my impression is that the piece is not by Bach, although I could be wrong.  Try some of the French composers: Widor, Franck, Guilmant etc.

It should be a pleasant search!

Yes, it's too short, and so a long shot. Sadly, I don't have anything more on it. Would make the search much, much easier. But sometimes it's certain passages in music that stand out more than the rest in the minds of people, and maybe this section stood out in someone's mind and (s)he could name the composition. That was my reason/hope posting here. A long shot is better than nothing.

It's something that was running in the background of some very old and obscure foreign movie, and only these 10secs are clearly audible without dialogue, and so naturally my first attempt of trying to track it down was via that route. Suffice it to say, that road ended in a headache-inducing cul-de-sac (don't ask - just be assured that I am not saying this lightly). So now I'm left trying to find it via listening to famous compositions. (Which, as you say, is pleasant indeed, but time consuming. Especially since I am one of those people who can only listen to certain types of music when in certain moods, and it's never pleasant to force oneself to listen to a music genre one is not in the mood for - not for long at least. Certainly you know what I mean, even if my explanation leaves something to be desired.)

Agreed, it's probably not Bach, because that was the first one to come to mind, and I've been listening to all his organ works trying to track it down. I am using these wiki lists right now to find organ works to listen to (It's slow going, and only Bach's works are the ones I can strike from the list right now):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_for_organ
http://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_Compositions_Featuring_the_Organ

If you feel those entries are missing something, please feel free to say so. Or maybe it will jog your memory?

It could be Liszt.

Thank you! I'll go through his works next.