Compositeur et Joeur: Guy Bovet ( 1942 ) Totentanz Hamburgo , uno de los tres preludios sobre la base de improvisaciones realizadas en Hamburgo con otros organistas. Gillian Weir, que describió como "el organista Bolero " Guy Bovet (b. Thun, Switzerland, 1942) Hamburger Totentanz Liszt found the devil's antics a powerful source of inspiration, and besides the four Mephisto Waltzes he also composed the sprawling Faust Symphony and the piano-and-orchestra powerhouse Totentanz (Dance of Death). Swiss organist and composer Guy Bovet reverses the menacing gravitas of that work, and probably also of Saint-Saëns' Dance Macabre, with his Hamburger Totentanz. The piece was conceived in 1970, when impresario Herbert Wulf arranged a concert with Bovet in Hamburg, Germany. In that program, Bovet joined in a four-hand improvisation, meant to be a light-hearted romp. When eventually published in 1989, it was designated the third Hamburger Prelude, along with two created in later tours to the United States and Spain. But the one played in this recital is, by far, the most often programmed. Bovet shows a sense of humor rare in organ works, providing some spice to this varied program, and some of those ingredients are a handful of themes from other composers.