Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Ave Maria Klare
This piece is also known as “Ricercar pro tempore adventus”. The text of the choral venerates Maria as the mother of Christ. Fischer creates a great fugue on the first segment of the melody...
This piece is also known as “Ricercar pro tempore adventus”. The text of the choral venerates Maria as the mother of Christ. Fischer creates a great fugue on the first segment of the melody...
It is well known that Johann Sebastian Bach considered Johann Ludwig Krebs as his most talented student. To Krebs Bach was undoubtedly a great source of inspiration. Many of Krebs’s large scale organ works...
The Frankenberg manuscript does not attribute a composer to this chorale prelude. It is tempting to attribute this piece to Johann Heinrich Buttstett. Not only because of the general idea of the piece (choral...
After yesterday’s prelude that was possibly written by Johann Heinrich Buttstett, follows today a prelude that was definitely written by Buttstett. The general idea is the same: choral melody in the bass voice and...
The Frankenberg manuscript, held by the Nederlands Muziekinstituut, is a rich source of choral preludes from both named and unnamed composers. This prelude to “Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gemein” is one of those...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679 – 1735), a German composer and organist, is the autor of the “Harmonische Seelenlust”. This work, containing all of his known chorale preludes together with figured bass settings for all...
Jacob Adlung (1699 – 1762) was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist. He was born in Bindersleben, near Erfurt. He studied philosophy, philology, and theology at the University of...
Pachelbel’s prelude to “Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn” has the choral melody in the bass. The upper two voices play a free, fast moving accompaniment, with short segments of fore imitation. There is...
This chorale prelude is the twin of the one (TWV 31:51) I posted yesterday. Where TWV 31:51 is very ‘keyboard’ in nature, TWV 31:52 is more instrumental. It is easy to imagine the accompanying...
In this chorale prelude Telemann writes broken chords for the right hand, while the chorale melody is played with the left hand. The festive text of the first verse of this chorale led me...
Zachow wrote at least four preludes based on the melody of “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her”. Three can already be found on my site. Today follows the fourth. The chorale melody is...
Since advent started today, it is time for a few more pieces of music suited for the advent and Christmas period. Perhaps they will come in handy in the many services that are to...
Buxtehude’s second prelude to “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen”, BuxWV 220, is very unlike its twin prelude, BuxWV 220. Where that one is Buxtehude’s familiar monodic style, BuxWV 221 is full of grandeur,...
The end of another series is near. Zachow’s preludes to “Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott” is the last of the Neumeister-choräle-not-by-Johann_Sebastian-Bach left for me to publish. Written in the style antico, it show...
The Neumeister Sammlung contains 5 chorale preludes written by Georg Andreas Sorge, Neumeister’s teacher at the organ. This is the fifth and last one of them. A simple three part setting of “Freu dich...