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BTC1001 PRELUDE AND FUGUE ON A THEME OF VITTORIA

For organ
Composition date: 18 Sep 1946
Genre: Solo organ
Duration: 5'
Dedication: 'For St Matthew's Church, Northampton, St Matthew's Day, 1946'

Notes

The work is founded on a theme used by Vittoria in his four-voice motet Ecce sacerdos magnus (1585), the first plainchant antiphon for the second Vespers of the Common of a Confessor Bishop.

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