The Orgelbüchlein Project is a collective composition project aiming to complete Bach’s unfinished manuscript known as ‘Orgelbüchlein’. In the ‘Little Organ Book’, Bach laid out a complete hymnal of short organ chorale preludes, 164 in all, but only completed 46 of them. Why the remaining 118 were left as blank pages, with only a title at the head, remains a mystery, but they inspried organists William Whitehead to found the Orgelbüchlein Project, in which contemporary composers are invited to contribute a piece to completing the collection. The resulting collection, to be published in six volumes, represents a cross-section of the most interesting composers at work today across Europe List of Composers Nigel Allcoat Johann Sebastian Bach Sally Beamish Christian von Blohn Timothy Byram-Wigfield John Butt Stephen Hough Juste Janulyte Simon Johnson Jonas Jurkunas Daniel Kidane Till Alexander Körber Ronny Krippner David Matthews Nico Muhly Anthony Powers Tarik O’Regan Roxanna Panufnik Poul Ruders Sven-David Sandström Robert Saxton Peter Shepherd Andrew Synnot Zsigmond Szathmáry William Whitehead Editor: William Whitehead