Johann Friedrich Fasch(1688 – 1758), a German violinist and composer, was born in Buttelstedt near Weimar. He was a pupil of Johann Kuhnau and worked as violinist in Bayreuth and Leipzig. Later he served...
Kauffmann’s second prelude on this chorale melody is a three part piece. The chorale melody in the soprano voice, the other two parts weave a sixteenth note patterns beneath it. The recording was done...
Kauffmann’s second prelude on “Nun lob mein Seel den Herren” is a fugue on the first phrase of the chorale melody, though on a smaller scale than his first prelude on the same melody....
Kauffmann’s prelude on “Nun freut euch lieben Christen gemein” is a lovely bicinium. The left had accompanies with scales and broken chords the chorale melody in the right hand. Kauffmann prescribes (again!) a 16′...
The title of this choral suggest perhaps music with some brilliance. However, the music Kehl actually wrote is to my ears very modest. Therefore I play it with a somewhat slow tempo and a...
Kauffmann prescribes again a 16-feet reed for this choral prelude. I tried the combination he suggets, but it makes the music very heavy to my ears. So I use a different registration in this...
The structure of this Toccata is actually quite similar as the structure of the Introïtus I posted a week ago: an introduction in stately chords, some passage work, a polyphonal section, and again some...
This is the twin prelude to the one I posted two days ago. And then only because it has the same choral melody as subject and it’s possibly written by Bach. I don’t know...
The choral “Lobt Gott ihr Chirsten all zugleich” inspired Kehl to a compose piece that is more early classical than baroque. It is a festive piece for a festive occasion (Christmas). The recording was...
Again a piece that may or may not have been composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an elegant piece in which the chorale melody flows in long lines, accompanied by faster eigth notes...
Two manuscripts containing 7 keyboard partita’s are held by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The partita’s vary in length, the number of dances, their type and order seem somewhat arbitrary. But they all have one thing...
Introïtus as a title sounds like it was meant to be played at the start of a service. And when I was active church organist I used to keep it easy, slow and rather...
Kauffmann’s first prelude to “In dich habe ich gehoffet” is a fugue on the first phrase of the choral melody. It is a cleverly constructued piece. The fugue theme appears 8 times, twice in...
Yesterday I realized I still have to finish my series of choral preludes by Johann Balthasar Kehl. Only a few pieces left to go, and then it’s time to round them all up in...
This is the second post with a piece from the organbook of Matthias Rottenau. The book is divided in several parts, each of which contains one type of piece: Praeambule, Introiti, Toccate, Canzone, Capricci...
