Max Richter - Organum (Piano Solo) /

Max Richter – Organum (Arr. for Piano Solo)

This is my solo piano arrangement of “Organum” by Max Richter, originally featured on his acclaimed 2004 album The Blue Notebooks. Known for its sparse, chant-like motif and austere stillness, Organum exemplifies Richter’s early experiments with ambient minimalism and memory-driven soundscapes.

Though brief, the piece is emotionally expansive-built on slow-moving chords and subtle inner voices that evoke a sense of ritual and lamentation. The title Organum itself is a nod to the earliest forms of Western polyphonic music, originating in medieval plainchant. Richter draws on that ancient spirit, reimagining it through a 21st-century lens of ambient texture and neoclassical restraint.

The Blue Notebooks remains one of Richter’s most influential albums—melding ambient textures, neoclassical restraint, and literary introspection (with spoken texts by Kafka and Czesław Miłosz). Organum, though modest in length, is one of its emotional high points: quiet, timeless, and full of space.

This piece has also appeared in major film and TV soundtracks, including Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir and HBO’s My Brilliant Friend, further cementing its role as an elegiac, cinematic miniature.

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