Fassang will play works by Mozart, Bach, Liszt Messiaen and Saint-Saëns, as well as his own improvisations, as part of a programme called Between Heaven and Earth. He will play the same pieces in the German city of Schwäbisch Gmünd for the European Church Music Festival on August 7.
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The concert in the Cathedral of Saints Michel and Gudule was organised by György Petőcz, director of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Brussels. Fassang played in the cathedral in 2007 at a concert that was also organised by the institute. He was drawn by the church's new organ which offered him experience he could use to play the new organ in Budapest's Palace of Arts.
Fassang said the culture of organ making had continued uninterrupted in places such as Belgium and France, unlike in Hungary, where there were no master organ builders for a period of 40 years. A good organ requires a cooperation between the builder and the organist: the builder has to approach the instrument "musically", he added.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
Photo: Máté Nándorfi
