Hour of Organ Music at St. Aurelius: Michael Vetter

Michael Vetter from Bautzen plays the Rohlf organ in the medieval monastery church. Variations by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Georg Böhm, Johann Sebastian Bach, and other masters will be performed. The organist Michael Vetter studied church music in Dresden, Weimar, and Hanover, early music in Bremen, as well as harpsichord and improvisation in Boston. As a church musician, he worked in Traunstein and Erlangen before accepting a call to Bautzen in 2014. There, he serves as cantor in the St. Petri parish. He is particularly committed to the consistent shaping of the church year in worship and concerts. As an organist, Michael Vetter is very versatile. A varied concert activity takes him to many interesting instruments both domestically and abroad. A special focus is on projects involving improvisation for historical silent films by renowned directors such as Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Fritz Lang, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, among others. CD recordings have been made featuring works by Michael Praetorius, Jan Pieter Sweelinck, Georg Böhm, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Jaques-Nicolas Lemmens, Cesar Franck, Charles-Marie Widor, Max Reger, Jean Langlais, Petr Eben, and Egil Hovland, as well as a complete recording of the organ works by Johannes Weyrauch.