Christian Erbach, Fantasia sexti toni
The ninth piece in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 is an anonymous Fantasia, written in the sixth tone. Though it is anonymous in this manuscript, in the organ book of Matthias Rottenau (held in the...
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Christian Erbach, Ricercar primi toni
Another one of the pieces from the organbook of Matthias Rottenau (Mus. Ms. 40615 from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) that is probably possibly perhaps a Ricercar (see here for an explanation). It is a...
Christian Erbach, Toccata primi toni
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...
Christian Erbach, Introïtus secundi toni
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...
Christian Erbach, Canzona tertii toni
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...
Christian Erbach, Ricercar secundi toni
Christian Erbach was a German composer, organist and teacher. Three documents from his own time give his age variously as 40 in 1610, 42 in 1615 and 50 in 1619, thus placing his birthdate...