Mus.Ms. 22541 II contains three chorale preludes by Buttstett on “Gottes Sohn ist kommen”. The first of the three has the chorale melody in the bass, with lots of embellishments and flourishes in the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
