On September 24 at 8:00 pm, we invite you to a very special organ concert as part of the Dresden Organ Cycle. Kreuz organist Holger Gehring will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of the bells of Dresden's Kreuzkirche with a program that focuses on their unique sound. The Kreuzkirche bells are a true monument: with the notes D, B, A, G and E, they form the third heaviest bronze peal in Germany.

This concert is dedicated to the so-called "carillon compositions", a musical genre that originated primarily in the Anglo-American region. Inspired by the manual ringing of bells ("change ringing") or famous chiming motifs such as that of "Big Ben", these works make the organ sound like a polyphonic carillon.

At the center of the evening are the three very different preludes and fugues by former Kreuzkantor Oskar Wermann. Composed in 1903 as a tribute to the new bells of the rebuilt Kreuzkirche, they take up the church's bell tones as a defining motif.