Chorister and organist, Andrew Kong, plays J.S. Bach’s Choral Partita for organ Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig (BWV 768) at St Giles Church on Sunday 22 March at 12:00 noon.
The work consists of a chorale and eleven short variations written on it. This is one of Bach’s earlier works, dating from around 1705, when the young composer was influenced by the style of the variations of Georg Böhm, organist of St. John’s Church in Lüneburg, where Bach was a student. Dieterich Buxtehude is another probable source of inspiration. Of Bach’s chorale partitas for organ, this is the longest.
Project 900-St Giles' Oxford 