Son of the organist Samuel and grandson of Charles Wesley, Samuel Sebastian held various positions as organist in English cathedrals. As a performer and as a composer of organ music he lived at a time of transition in English organ-playing and construction, as the full pedal-board came into wider use in England, to some extent inspired by the example of Mendelssohn. Wesley's organ music, influenced inevitably by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, after whom he had been christened, reflects these new developments, and paves the way for the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of organ music.
Wesley, Samuel Sebastian
Introduction and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor (revised version 1869)
1 Introduction and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor (revised version 1869) 07:44
3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 2. Larghetto in F-Sharp Minor
2 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 2. Larghetto in F-Sharp Minor 05:52
Voluntary
3 Grave in D Minor - Andante in F Major 05:20
Andante cantabile in G Major
4 Andante cantabile in G Major 04:20
3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 3. Andante in E-Flat Major
5 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 3. Andante in E-Flat Major 04:14
3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 2. Andante in F Major
6 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 2. Andante in F Major 07:55
Andante in C Major
7 Andante in C Major 04:53
Andante in E Minor
8 Andante in E Minor 04:31
Holsworthy Church Bells
9 Holsworthy Church Bells, Air with Variations 05:26
3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 3. Choral Song
10 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 3. Choral Song 07:14
