Daniel Chorzempa

Classical organist and composer Daniel Chorzempa was born on December 7, 1944, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied both music and architecture at the University of Minnesota before continuing his music studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Cologne, Germany. While he was known to play the harpsichord and piano. Daniel Chorzempa was best known as an organist and rose to international prominence in the 1960 as a concert performer before recording albums such as Bach: Organ Works (1970), Liszt: Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam / Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (1971), Bach: Die 6 Triosonaten BWV 525 – 530 (1972), Mozart: Orgelwerke (1973), Fauré: Requiem (1975), Händel: The 16 Organ Concertos (1976), Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’ (1977), Widor: Symphonies No. 5 & 10 ‘Romane’ (1982), Bach: Preludes & Fugues (1986) and Bach: 6 Sonaten für Orgel - Trio Sonatas (1989). During his recording and concert career, he collaborated with conductors and soloists including Zubin Mehta, Elly Ameling, John Eliot Gardiner, Jaap Schröder, Edo de Waart, and many others. Daniel Chorzempa was also a composer and, in the 1970s, he became interested in contemporary and electronic music that was associated with the Cologne School and the ‘New Simplicity’ movement (aka Newe Einfachheit). Daniel Chorzempa died on March 25, 2023, at the age of 78.

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