Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
A simple yet beautiful manualiter prelude of this Lutheran chorale. It is set up as a fugue on the first line of the melody of the chorale. The theme appears 12 times, four of...
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Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
The fourth chorale prelude by Buttstett in the Frankenberger Manuscript on “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr” is for manuals only. The recording was done on the sample set of the Silbermann organ...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
The third chorale prelude by Buttstett in the Frankenberger Manuscript on “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr” is my favorite of the four. It is probably meant for manuals only, but I made...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
The second chorale prelude by Buttstett in the Frankenberger Manuscript on ‘Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr’ starts almost identical as the one I posted yesterday. The first five bars of the left...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
The so-called Frankenberger Manuscript is one of the most precious items in the collection of the Netherlands Music Institute. It contains 196 organ chorale settings from the period 1650-1730, compiled and copied by the...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Jesus Christus unser Heiland
This choral prelude is transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The dorian sixth in the first bar is perhaps a bit uncomfortable to our ‘modern’ ears, but was of...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Christ lag in Todesbanden
This chorale prelude is the second by Buttstett on the chorale Christ lag in Todesbanden in the manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The choral melody is in the bass...
Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Christ lag in Todesbanden
Johann Heinrich Buttstett was born in 1666 in Bindersleben and died in Erfurt in 1727. He was a pupil of Johann Pachelbel. In 1691 he became organist at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt. Buttstett was...