Thematic Links, Unrelated Composers

[headcase]

Judging by the content of some recent posts on this discussion board, it's time to explore some new avenues....

 

I would be interested to hear of pieces in the organ repertoire that seem linked thematically to others, particularly where composers are unlikely to have known each other and the thematic similarities therefore coincidental.

 

To kick off, I would cite as an example the similarity between the theme of Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm and Smetena's Piano Trio in G Minor.

 

Has anyone else come across this example ?

 

Can anyone suggest others examples that might make, for example, a useful/interesting pairing in a concert scenario ?

 

H

[Vox Humana]

Earlier this year I heard Colin Walsh playing Dupré's Evocation . It reminded me strongly of something, but I couldn't place it. Days later it clicked: the scherzo from Brahm's second piano concerto.