Performance of the organ work by Josef Garovi
The "liturgical" compositions by the musician from Obwalden will be performed at various venues in Switzerland this year.
March 7, 2023 marks the 115th birthday of Josef Garovi (1908-1985). The musician and composer from Obwalden worked in Obwalden, Lucerne, Zurich and Valais. He was awarded the Orlando di Lasso Medal in 1977 and the Central Switzerland Culture Prize in 1978.
While organizing the estate, various unpublished liturgical organ compositions came to light, which the composer had played himself in church services - and which then remained in the estate.
These "liturgical" compositions will now be performed this year. Choral preludes, preludes, postludes, offertories and versets will be performed in the following churches, some of them at places where he worked: In Obwalden at the parish and pilgrimage church in Sachseln, in the Frauenkloster convent and in the Kollegiumskirche church in Sarnen; in Lucerne at the Jesuit Church (organ class of Suzanne Z'Graggen, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and at St. John's Church (Beat Heimgartner); in the Wallis at the Kollegiumskirche Brig (Hilmar Gertschen) as well as in Zurich at the Johanneskirche (Tobias Willi).
Further concert performances of his works are planned in the Engelberg monastery church (Alessandro Valoriani), at the Hofkirche in Lucerne (Stéphane Mottoul) and in Bern at the Trinity Basilica (Olivier Eisenmann). This means that almost the entire organ oeuvre of Dupré's pupil Josef Garovi will be played in various churches this year.
Exact details of the venues and concerts will be announced in due course.
on the Josef Garovi website published.
Article in the Schweizer Musikzeitung
Beat A. Föllmi: Twelve-tone music in Central Switzerland, SMZ 1/2000, page 11 ff.
Angelo Garovi: Wind orchestras, church choirs and twelve-tone music, SMZ 4/2008, page 5 ff.
