Score Larghetto ostinato Performance After I (finally) finished the Fantasia I published last week, I wanted to compose new. And as I had learned that inspiration doesn’t come spontaneously, I just sat down and...
Score Fantasia “Tota pulchra es” Performance “Tota pulchra es” is an old Catholic prayer, written in the fourth century. It is one of the five antiphons for the psalms of Second Vespers for the...
A few days ago I published the score of one of the compositions of which Bach’s authorship is doubtful, namely the choral prelude “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” (BWV Anh. II 68)....
A few days ago I published Marpurg’s prelude to the choral “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen”. It is fascinating to see that the left hand part of that composition is really not much...
After my reconstructions of Sorge’s choral preludes to the chorals “O Herre Gott, dein Göttlich Wort” and “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr” I thought that three times is a charm and I...
After my (in my opinion) succesful restoration of an incomplete choral prelude by Georg Andreas Sorge (see here and here I wanted to try another one. On the last page of manuscript Go. S....
A few years ago I transcribed a manuscript containing some 20 plus chorale preludes composed by Georg Andreas Sorge. No less than five of them are incomplete, because there are several pages missing from...
Tomorrow I’m going to the hospital and they will (probably) remove the cast around my wrist. And then I can start playing with my left hand again. The hand has been immobile for over...
As I am a bit handicapped at the moment (broken wrist, torn knee ligaments) I am on the lookout for organ music that can be played with one hand and one foot. It turns...
Twelve days ago, while skating, I had a little accident and broke my left wrist and tore the ligaments of my left knee. The left side of my body is therefore out of the...
Even though I love Baroque music, it is not the style of music I like to use to write music. If music is like story telling, the Baroque style is not the what I...
My study annex music room is a mess, let’s be honest about that. It is crammed full with four instruments (organ, piano, violin and a guitar), books, materials of three studies (biochemistry, IT and...
Three weeks ago I published the score of a choral prelude by Johann Gottfried Walther, based on the melody of “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland” (in English: “Now come, Savior of the heathens”). I...
The work on Mohrheim’s Trio 7 reminded me of a chorale prelude I composed myself many years ago. I wrote it somewhere in the time I studied harmony and contrapunt. I have no idea...
