Music by Frederick Frahm

Frederick Frahm (b. 1964) was born in Hemet, California and was educated at Pacific Lutheran University. He directed church music programs across the country for 40 years, before retiring in 2021. A prolific composer, Frahm has written a significant catalog of compositions that includes music for organ, choral music, chamber pieces, art song and song cycle, symphony and concerto, and extended vocal works including operas and cantatas. His music appears in the catalog of more than dozen publishers, and he is co-director of the publisher Firehead Organ Works. As a performer, he has appeared in organ recitals across the country and as organist and harpsichordist for the New Mexico Philharmonic and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra. From 2011 to 2022, he was active as a teaching composer-artist for the Santa Fe Opera company, working with elementary and middle school age children to write their own chamber operas for public performance. Frahm’s powerful and distinctive music draws on his background in sacred music, his lifelong interest in abstraction (especially in visual art), the landscapes of the American West, and great literature from all historical periods. (Photo by Anne Staveley, 2022)

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The recordings can be listened to online at YouTube (full playlist) or downloaded as MP3 files.

Altar Flowers (2020)
1) Yellow Rose; 2) Purple Peony; 3) Red Sunflower
Published by Firehead Organ Works in “Canterbury Sketchbook, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Arlecchino, 1964 (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Ascension Abstract (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Babbitt Sonata (2021)
1) The Shining Spires of Zenith
YouTube / MP3
2) Garden Party
YouTube / MP3
3) Babbitt the Man
YouTube / MP3
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube (complete) / MP3 (complete)

Beautiful Ghost (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Cabeza de Vaca (2014)
1) Cabeza de Vaca at the shore
2) Cabeza de Vaca hears a distant music
3) Cabeza de Vaca ponders his life as a soldier
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Canticum de Anima (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Cenotaph (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chaplinesque (2016)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “A la venue de Noël” (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Christe, du Lamm Gottes” (2006)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 2”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Consolation” (2003)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 2”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Humility” (2003)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 2”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Llangloffan” (2003)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Liebster Jesu” (2001)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Noël Nouvelet” (2003)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf” (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Orientis partibus” (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Picardy” (2002)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Schmücke dich” (1986)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “So gehst du nun” (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Song 13” (2003)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 2”
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “St. Anne” (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Ubi caritas” (2003)
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Uffingham” (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Chorale Prelude on “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen” (2002)
Published by Augsburg Fortress in “Faith Alive, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

ChoraleBook (2024)
1) Advent: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
2) Christmas: Christum wir sollen loben schon
3) Epiphany: Mit Fried und Freud ich far dahin
4) Lent: Der am Kreuz
5) Easter: Jesus, meine Zuversicht
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Corpus Christi Abstract (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Daffodils, being the Poetry of Christ (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Dalle de Verre (Sonatina) (2021)
1) Amethyst; 2) Azure; 3) Amber
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Dandelion (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Dauphinée House, 1932 (2022)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Deep Mirror (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Deo Gratias (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works in “Canterbury Sketchbook, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Embroidering the Terrestrial Mantle (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Farolitos en la Nieve (Little Lights in the Snow) (2002)
Published by Musik Fabrik in “Fiestas de Santa Fe”
YouTube / MP3

Flower in a Valley (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

The Flowers Fall Away (2022)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Flowers in the Wood (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Four Parts (2024)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Fourth Fantasy (2012)
Published by Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
YouTube / MP3

Frankincense (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works in “Canterbury Sketchbook, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Gran Quivira Chapel (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Great Age, Behold Us (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

I am Ezra (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

I Remember the Rain (2024)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

In Winter Woods (2019)
1) Snow Sequence; 2) The Meeting; 3) Nocturnal; 4) Focus
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

intaglio (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Jemez Chapel (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Keesling Street (2005; piano)
YouTube / MP3

Kirchensonate (2012)
1) Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
2) Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
3) Herr Christ, der einig Gotts sohn
4) Seelenbräutigam
5) Jesus, meine Zuversicht
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

La Morte Meditata (2016)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Lux in Fenestris (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Musica Badia (Ave Maria, gratia plena) (2016)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Ninth Fantasy (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Nocturne (Nun ruhen alle Wälder) (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Nunc Dimittis (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Offertory (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works in “Canterbury Sketchbook, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

On Mesa Verde (2008)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Ossa Arida (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Paisaje (2024)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Pastorale on “Gartan” (2019)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Pavane and Galliard (2024)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Pentecost Abstract (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Pierrot (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

The Plain of the Sea (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Préambule (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Quaraí Chapel (2008) for strings and organ
(live performance; Aaron Levett and Joshua Walden, violins; Alessandra Aquilanti, viola; Stephanie Lai Wu, cello; Carson Cooman, organ)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Rorate Cœli (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Rosary (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Santiago (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Second Fantasy (2009)
Published by Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
YouTube / MP3

Third Fantasy (2012)
Published by Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
YouTube / MP3

Three Voluntaries (2008)
1) Nobile; 2) Cantabile; 3) Scherzando
Published by Zimbel Press/Subito Music Corp.
YouTube / MP3

Tierra Roja (2006)
Published by Musik Fabrik in “Fiestas de Santa Fe”
YouTube / MP3

Tiguex Winter (2022)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Toccata per organo (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works in “Canterbury Sketchbook, Vol. 1”
YouTube / MP3

Transfiguration (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Trinity Abstract (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Two Psalm Preludes (2018)
1) Tonus Peregrinus
YouTube / MP3
2) Tone VIII
YouTube / MP3
Published by Firehead Organ Works

Urbs Beata Ierusalem (2020)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Vaudeville (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Versetti on Wondrous Love (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

Water-Lily (2023)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3

White Chrysanthemum (2021)
Published by Firehead Organ Works
YouTube / MP3