Wilhelm Karges (?), Fantasia
Manuscript Am. B. 340, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains three works that are generally believed to be composed by Wilhelm Karges: a Fantasia, a Prelude, and a Capriccio. The Capriccio is only half...
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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Jesu meine Freude (BWV Anh II 59)
Bach’s authorship of this chorale prelude on “Jese meine Freude” is doubted. And probably rightly so. The use of sequences is a bit bland and not as refined as you might expect from Bach....
Ernest Grosjean, Sortie
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott (Emans 193)
Another work by Sorge that appears in manuscript Mus ms 30376. It has again Sorge’s favorite trio-like form. Or perhaps it is better to say that is my favorite form of chorale preludes by...
Ernest Grosjean, Pastorale
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Es spricht der unweisen Mund wohl
Kauffmann’s prelude to “Es spricht der unweisen Mund wohl” is written for two manuals and pedal. It is however not immediately clear which part should be played with the (left) hand and which part...
Ernest Grosjean, Mélodie
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Georg Andreas Sorge (?), Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (Emans 127)
Reinmar Emans made a list (around 1997) of chorale preludes that could possibly have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach. The list contains 198 items. Since 1997 some of the works on the list...
Ernest Grosjean, Offertoire
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Vater unser im Himmelreich (alio modo)(2)
Kaufmann wrote three choral preludes to “Vater unser im Himmelreich”, two of which are bicinia. This is the second bicinium, with the chorale melody in the bassvoice. Like in the other bicinium is based...
Johann Michael Bach, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
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 Sammlung contains a third version of this piece. The major...
Johann Christoph Bach, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
Johann Christoph Bach (1642 – 1703) was the eldest son of Heinrich Bach and (thus) a brother of Johann Michael Bach. In 1685 he was appointed town organist at St George’s in Eisenach and...
Ernest Grosjean, Sortie
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Vater unser im Himmelreich
The Neumeister Sammlung contains 5 chorale preludes written by Georg Andreas Sorge, Neumeister’s teacher at the organ. The five pieces by Sorge were probably added after Neumeister copied the main repertoire in his manuscript....
Ernest Grosjean, Canzone
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...