Karl Hoyer (1891-1936) was a highly regarded student of Max Reger and Karl Straube , the Kantor of St. Thomas’s Leipzig , and held several positions including that of Professor at the famous Institute for Church Music in  Leipzig .<br>
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For a long time the Chorale Preludes op. 57  were only available in libraries or second hand bookshops, but now Bärenreiter is publishing a complete edition of them.<br>
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These pieces are characterised by formal variety, brevity for practical purposes, and are mostly modest in their technical demands. They were extremely well-known  amongst organists  during Hoyer’s lifetime, a period which marked the transition from late Romanticism  to that of  the German Organ  Movement. The  keys correspond with those in the “  Evangelische   Gesangbuch ”  and  “ Gotteslob ”. Two further  volumes are in preparation.<br>