The third prelude of Kauffmann's "Harmonische Seelenlust" that employs the oboe for the choral melody is as beautiful as the two I posted earlier.…
This melody is one of the most famous and most used of the Lutheran church. It is for example also used for "Wie soll ich dich empfangen", "Ach Herr…
When Kauffmann uses a ternary rythm, something special is the result. The prelude on "Allen Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" is no exception to that rule.…
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679 – 1735) was a Baroque composer and organist from southern Germany. He studied with Buttstett and Alberti. Later in…
This is the twin prelude to a piece I uploaded almost two years ago. It uses just the first two phrases of the choral melody. But Kauffmann has them…
Kauffmann's second prelude on "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". It's a trio-like setting, with the melody in the pedals. The hands play a…
Kauffmann wrote two preludes on "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott". They are both strong compositions, in which the greatness, reliability or…
Kauffmann's fughetta on "Wir glauben all' an einen Gott" is really short. Just 10 bars and that's it. It's a charming little piece nonetheless,…
Kauffmann's prelude on "Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ" is a bicinium. The registration Kauffmann prescribes that the left hand should probably be…
Kauffmann seems to be the inventor of chorale prelude in which the chorale prelude is not played on the organ, but on a seperate instrument, in this…
An interesting prelude by Kauffmann on this Christmas choral. All phrases of the melody are introduces and accompanied by themselves in diminution.…
Like in so many of his preludes Kauffmann prescribes the use of the Quintadena 16' for this piece. Since he gives an alternative registration, based…
This is the fourth prelude in which Kauffmann employs the oboe to play the choral melody. The organ plays an elegant trio to accompany the oboe.…
In his registration prescriptions Kauffmann often uses a 16 feet stop. Sometimes that makes the music needlesly heavy to my ears. But in this piece…
Kauffman's is perhaps best remembered nowadays as author of "Die Harmonische Seelenlust", a complete edition of his organ chorales. He started…
Kauffmann's prelude on "Herzliebster Jesu was hast du verbrochen" is short but ingeniously constructed. It starts as a fugue on the first phrase of…
Kauffmann's prelude on "Ich ruf zu dir Herr Jesu Christ" is a bicinium. The choral melody is stated in half notes and accompanied by the rapidly…
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.…
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.…
The melody of this choral is also known with the words "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele". That seems an interesting contrafact, since based on the…
This Choral prelude on "Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der den Tod uberwand" is transcribed from a manuscript (Mus.ms. 22541 III) owned by the…
The chorale prelude Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott was transcribed from from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu…
The second prelude by Kauffmann on Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin The…
The third choral prelude by Kauffmann on "Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott", found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu…
Kauffmann's prelude on "Lobt Gott ihr Christen all' zugleich" is a vivid three-part invention. The choral melody is presented in the middle voice,…
The second prelude by Kauffmann on "Lobt Gott ihr Christen all'zugleich" is a much shorter work than the one I published almost two months ago. It is…
Kauffmann's prelude on "Nun freut euch lieben Christen gemein" is a lovely bicinium. The left had accompanies with scales and broken chords the…
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…
The chorale prelude Nun freut euch, Gottes Kinder (found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) has the same…
Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK) contains 73 preludes based on chorales suitable for the Christmas period.…
Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK) contains four preludes by Kauffmann on "Nun kom der heiden Heiland". They …
The third prelude by Kauffmann on "Nun kom der heiden Heiland" in Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK). It is a…
This is the fourth prelude by Kauffmann, based on the prelude "Nun kom der heiden Heiland". In it's three part simplicity it is perhaps the most…
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…
The chorale prelude on "Nun lob mein Seel' den Herren" is a fugue on the opening phrase of the choral melody. No frivolous registration this time,…
Usually in choral preludes I tend to have stronger stops for the chorale melody and softer stops for the accompaniment. In this prelude, however,…
Kauffmann's prelude on "O heiliger Geist, o heiliger Gott" calls for the almost impossible combination of a Quintadena 16' and Fagot 16' in the left…
In this choral prelude Kauffmann shows his more lyrical side. The recording was done on the sample set of the Müller-organ in the Sint Bavokerk…
Again a piece with an unusual registration prescription. No indication however which hand should play on which manual. So I made two recordings.…
The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has at least three sources for this prelude by Kauffmann: two copies of "Der Harmonische Seelenlust" and the…
In this choral prelude Kauffmann again prescribes the use of the Quintadena 16'. Together with the Praestant 8' it forms an interesting combination I…
Kauffmann's first prelude on "Valet will ich dir geben" calls for a combination that I by now consider as 'typically Kauffmann': Fagott 16',…
Again a piece with an unusual registration prescription. No indication however which hand should play on which manual. Perhaps Kauffmann meant it the…
Another go at this choral melody, this time by Kauffmann. It is intruiging how one melody can give rise to so many different pieces. This version is…
Kauffmann is best known for the "Harmonische Seelenlust". This work, containing all of his known chorale preludes together with figured bass settings…
This chorale prelude was transcribed from manuscript Mus. ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Kauffmann prescribes a Gemshorn 8'…
Kauffmann's 'Harmonische Seelenlust' contains three preludes to "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten". Only one of them was written by Kauffmann.…
Kauffmann wrote two preludes to the choral "Wie schön leuchtet uns der Morgenstern". For the organ solo one, Kauffmann prescribes the use of a…
This prelude is one of the six Kauffmann wrote for the combination organ and oboe. It is a lively piece in 6/8 meter. Kauffmann has a knack for…
Transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin The recording was done with the sampleset, made by Organ Art…