Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Ave Maria Klare
This piece is also known as “Ricercar pro tempore adventus”. The text of the choral venerates Maria as the mother of Christ. Fischer creates a great fugue on the first segment of the melody...
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Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Der Tag der ist so Freudenreich
This choral prelude is also known as “Ricercar pro Festis Natalytis”. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote that his father considered Fischer to be one of the greatest composers of his time. This ricercar can...
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Da Jesu an dem Kreuze stund
This chorale prelude is also known as “Ricercar pro Tempore Quadragesimae”. Most of the music of Fischer is lost nowadays. Luckily a small collection survives in manuscript Mus. Ms. 30196, owned by the Staatsbibliothek...
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Komm heilger Geist mit deiner Gnad.
This chorale prelude is also known as “Ricercar pro Festis Pentecostalibus”. The manuscript I based this edition on (Mus.ms. 30196 owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) seems to contain some errors (missing voices or...
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Christ ist erstanden
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656 – 1746) was a German Baroque composer. Not much is known about him. Most of his works did not survive. One of the works that did survive is a...