Sonatine II is part of a series of audio-visual compositions that the then Bauhaus student Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack performed, together with Kurt Schwerdtfeger and Josef Hartwig, for the first time at the Bauhaus Festival in 1923. The Farbenlichtspiele (Color-Light Plays) were created using movable light sources and colored masks that were suspended in a box-like projection apparatus and operated by hand, which allowed complex overlapping and gradations of color that were coordinated with the music. Hirschfeld-Mack’s organ composition in D minor, which recalls a liturgical choral prelude, is thematically structured in a manner analogous to the