Christian Bischof (no relation to Justin Bischof who is featured on a Raven CD playing one of the same pieces, Liszt: Prelude & Fugue on BACH, on a Klais organ in the USA) plays monumental works of Franz Lizst on the now 76-stop organ rebuilt by Klais in 2020 at St. Margaret Church in Munich, Germany, a place of seemingly endless reverberation! 

The organ was originally built in 1915 by the Munich workshop of Leopold Nenninger & Albert Moser with 57 registers in late Romantic style. Following severe war damage in 1944, the organ was initially repaired but subsequently completely rebuilt between 1954 and 1955 by Anton Schwenk, incorporating approximately 20 stops by Moser/Nenninger. This project created the distinctive exposed-pipe façade — featuring open 32-foot pipes — that defines the entire west gallery space to this day. It was further expanded by Wilhelm Stöberl (1970) and Johannes Führer (2002).

In 2019–2020, a collaborative team formed by the Munich workshop Kaps and the Bonn workshop Klais undertook a comprehensive re-engineering of the instrument. The entire organ was structurally moved away from the damp west wall to optimize ventilation, stabilize the tuning, and restore a clearly structured layout as designed by Christian Bischof and the builders,  resurrecting much of the original, visionary tonal concepts of 1915 while being opened toward a broader symphonic language.

Works by Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Prelude & Fugue on BACH (1870)
Consolation Nr. 4 in D-flat (1849)
"Weinen, Ilagen, Sorgen, Zagen" 1863
"Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten" (before 1881)
Fantasy & Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" (1850)

Christian Bischof is organist and music director of St. Margaret Church, Munich. His musical roots lie in Bamberg and at the music grammar school of the Regensburger Domspatzen, where his passion for vocal music and the organ developed simultaneously. He received a diploma in Roman Catholic church music with majors in organ and choral conducting at the University of Music Würzburg and at the Musikhögskolan i Piteå in Sweden. Among his teachers are Christoph Bossert, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Zsolt Gárdonyi, and Jörg Straube. He completed his studies in 2011 with the Meisterklasse diploma in organ and was a scholarship recipient of the Cusanuswerk. He is also organ consultant to the Diocese of Munich. His organological interests have especially concentrated on Munich organbuilder Albert Moser, who significantly influenced tonal evolution of German organs. He concertizes and teaches internationally, especially in the United States, where he has been Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan.