Five of the pieces in the Neumeister manuscript are without a named composer. Based on stylistical grounds and on references to other sources two of…
Five of the pieces in the Neumeister manuscript are without a named composer. Based on stylistical grounds and on references to other sources two of…
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30439 owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is an interesting manuscript. It contains five different fascicles, some reasonably…
Manuscript Mus Ms 30439 owned by the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin is, despite the bad shape it is in, an interesting manucript. Not only does it…
I already published two versions of Johann Michael Bach's prelude to ``Allein Gott in het Höh sei Ehr''. (see here and here). The Neumeister…
Johann Michael Bach (1648 - 1694) was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach and, more notably, the father of Maria Barbara, the first wife of her…
Johann Michael Bach's prelude to "Der du bist drei in Einigkeit" is a well written four part piece. The tonal development is a bit strange. The piece…
Bach's prelude to "Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt" is a small fugue on the first phrase of the melody. This phrase appears at least 7 times, though…
Johann Michael Bach's prelude to "Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot" is a four part piece that was probably meant to be played manualiter. Each…
Johann Michael's Bach prelude to "Es spricht der unweisen Mund wohl gar" is again a simple three part piece. The chorale melody is played in the…
Who is the author of this piece? Bach or Bach? It was considered to be composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, and as such it has a BWV-number. The…
Johann Michael Bach wrote two preludes to "Gott hat das Evangelium". The first prelude by has the choral melody in octaves in left hand and pedals, a…
Johann Michael Bach wrote two preludes to "Gott hat das Evangelium". The first prelude is posted here. This second prelude has the chorale melody in…
The third chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. It is a short prelude on the…
In the nineteenth century this piece was attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and included into the catalog "Bachwerkeverzeichnis" as BWV 751. In the…
Bach's prelude to "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der den Tod überwand" is in style and atmosphere very reminescent to anonymus preludes from Mus Ms…
Johann Michael Bach is from other sources known to be the composer of the thirteenth choral in Mus Ms 30439. Several holes in the manuscript make…
Bach's chorale prelude to "Kommt her zu mir spricht Gottes Sohn" is not only present in the Neumeister Sammlung, but is present in Mus. Ms. 30439 as…
Neumeister attributes this chorale prelude to Johann Michael Bach. In other sources it is attributed to Johann Pachelbel. A reason often given for…
The second chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. It is a sort of a…
The fourth chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is again a prelude by Johann Michael Bach. The style of this prelude is…
The fifth chorale prelude of the Neumeister-Choräle-not-by-Johann-Sebastian is the second prelude of Johann Michael Bach to "Nun freut euch lieben…
The Neumeister Collection is a compilation of 82 chorale preludes which was rediscovered in 1985. It attracted a lot of attention because it…
Other manuscript sources attribute this piece to Johann Pachelbel. Johann Gottfried Neumeister however attributes it in his collection to Johann…
(Update, 6 june 2018: Based on the Neumeister manuscript, this piece is more likely to be composed by Johann Michael Bach than by Johann Pachelbel.…
The choral "O Herr Gott, Vater in Ewigkeit" is a choral meant for Trinity Sunday. Bach writes a piece in three parts, to emphasize the Trinitarian…
The last piece of the second fascicle of Mus Ms 30439 was written by Johan Michael Bach. It is a manualiter prelude on "Von Gott will ich nicht…
This piece appears not only in Neumeister's manuscript, but is present in Mus. Ms. 30439 as well. I published the version from that last source two…
Neumeister's transcription of Bach's prelude to "Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz" gives again many reasons to doubt the correctness of his…
The last of the pieces by Johann Michael Bach from Neumeister's collection is the prelude to "Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist". It develops as a…
Neumeister's transcription of Bach's prelude to "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält" contains surprisingly few errors. Perhaps because it is a…