Paul Siefert (?), Fantasia Noni Toni ex A La Mi Re
The Fantasia noni Toni Ex A La Mi Re is the last of the 13 anonymous fantasia from manuscript Becker II.2.51. It took me a bit longer to finish this series than I initially...
Category: Anonymus
Paul Siefert (?), Fantasia Octavi Toni ex G (2)
The second Fantasia octavi Toni ex G from manuscript Backer II.2.51 is structurally similar to it’s predecessor in the manusript. Both feature three episodes in whoch the themes appear in their ‘normal’ form and...
Paul Siefert (?), Fantasia Octavi Toni ex G
The fantasia octavi Toni ex G is the eleventh fantasia from manuscript Becker II.2.51, owned by the Stadtbibliothek Leipzig. It features three distinguisable episodes with each it’s own fugue theme. In each of these...
Johann Gottfried Müthel, Herzlich tut mich verlangen
[update, april 5th, 2025] It has come to my attention, that in other publications this composition is attributed to Johann Gottfried Müthel. This assumption is based on the fact that Müthel is the scribe...
Anonymus, Wo soll ich fliehen hin
Somehow anonymus pieces are less popular than pieces we know the composer of. And where the compositions with known composers get published, the anonymus compositions are often overlooked. And that’s all the more the...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia in D
The Fantasia in D, written on folio 25 of manuscript Am.B 340 is again an anonymous work. It is again an Echo Fantasia and has many similarities with the preceding one. I am inclined...
Anonymus (Kirchhoff?), Ciaconna “Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns” (2)
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia in A (2)
The next composition in manuscript Am.B. 340 (after the Fantasia in G, published last week) is again an anonymous composition and I do not know on which original it might be based. The composition...
Anonymus (Kirchhoff?), Ciaconna “Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns”
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
Wilhelm Karges (?), Fantasia in D
[update, 21-03-2021] I finally deduced what the meaning is of this sign: It signifies a repeat. That means that in this particular piece there is a repeat near the end that I had hitherto...
Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (?), Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, Emans 137
It is a fact that people like to have a name of the creator to go with a piece of art. Pieces that cannot be attributed to a person, are somehow less valuable. Probably...
H.M.T., Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
This is the fifth of the unedited anonymus choral preludes from manuscript KN 209, owned owned by the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg I have the privilige to publish. It is again a magnificent composition, based...
Anonymus, O Herre Gott, begnade mich
This is the fourth of the unedited anonymus choral preludes from manuscript KN 209, owned owned by the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg I have the privilige to publish. This is really a magnificent composition, based...
Anonymus, Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist
This is the third of the unedited anonymus choral preludes from manuscript KN 209, owned owned by the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg I have the privilige to publish. I is a relatively straightforward manualiter composition....
Anonymus, Fuga Colorata
Almost three years a go I created a publication containing all organ works by Simon Lohet (Loxhay) (c. 1550 – 1611), a Flemish composer, possibly born in Maastricht. The primary source for Lohet’s remaining...