Andrea Macinanti - Bossi: Opera omnia per organo, Vol. 5 (2012)

This fifth volume of the Marco Enrico Bossi complete organ works includes a rich anthology of pieces mainly composed during his early creative period. The disc includes the first two Sonatas, op. 60 and 71, the Innotrionfale of 1885, the two scherzos and the Impromptu op. 49, and Tema e Variazioni op. 115, a work strongly influenced by the music of Schumann.

Marco Enrico Bossi was only 27 when he premiered his First Organ Sonata on 26th May 1888 in the Como Cathedral in front of a huge audience that, amongst others, included Arrigo Boito, Alfredo Catalani and Giacomo Puccini. Two years later he wrote his Second Sonata op. 71, named Honos alit artes, won first prize at the contest organized by Stefano Golinelli in cooperation with Florence Conservatory and the Musica Sacra magazine.