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FARTEIN VALEN - PASTORAL FOR ORGAN - 1939

DISCLAIMER: I do not own this material. This upload is shared for educational and archival purposes only. All rights belong to the respective copyright holders. Fartein Valen (1887-1952): Pastoral for Organ (Op.34, 1939) Performers: Anders Eidsten Dahl, Organ An interesting listening experience is to have this playing simultaneously from two separate sound sources in the room. Stagger the entrances of the videos so that one begins 20 seconds or so after the other. If you can lay back and close your eyes and be bathed in a kaleidoscope of color and form and more much more. Norwegian modernist composer Fartein Valen (1887–1952) occupies a unique place in 20th-century Scandinavian music: he pursued an international modernist language centered on rigorous polyphonic craft rather than national-romantic harmony. Trained as an organist and deeply versed in counterpoint, Valen built much of his mature style on what is often described as “dissonant polyphony” - a texture reminiscent of Baroque counterpoint in its linear independence and imitative working, but with a crucial difference: the voices do not aim toward consonant cadences. Instead, the music is propelled by the independence of lines, the overlap of motives, and the way simultaneous intervals are treated as byproducts of counterpoint rather than as functional harmony. From the late 1920s through the 1940s, Valen’s atonal language is best approached as line-driven music: entries, inversions, stretto-like overlaps, and motivic transformation across voices become the primary “syntax,” replacing tonal goal-directedness. Later sources describe his technique as moving toward a free twelve-tone method—“free” in the sense that ordered pitch thinking serves contrapuntal independence rather than a strict, textbook serial procedure. For listeners (and for score-readers), the most rewarding way in is to follow individual strands and observe how short cells migrate, recombine, and accumulate density. About the piece in this video: Pastoral (Pastorale), Op. 34 is an organ solo composed in 1939 (published 1949). The title may suggest a traditional pastoral mood, but Valen’s “pastoral” world is less about diatonic ease than about clarity of line and spacious, interweaving voices—an austere, luminous landscape drawn in counterpoint, where lyricism is carried by the autonomy of the parts rather than by harmonic cadence.