Kirchhoff’s prelude to the choral “Wenn wir in höchsten Nöthen sein” is a peculiar piece. The choral meody is played unisono on the manuals and the pedal. Between each phrase of the melody Kitchhoff...
Judging by the length Kirchhoff’s chorale prelude to “Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele” is his most ambitious compositon contained in manuscript Mus. Ms. 40037. It consists of 4 variations on the choral melody...
This choral prelude on the melody of “Was mein Gott will das g’scheh allzeit” is a straightforward piece. The introduction is a short fugato on the first line of the choral melody. Then follows...
It’s been a while since I published a composition from manuscript Mus. Ms. 40037. The last one was Kirchhoff’s ciaconna on Ach, Herr mich armen Sünder. The next composition in the manuscript is a...
Kirchhoff seems to have elvated the ciaconna to his trademark technique for writing a choral prelude. His prelude to the famous melody of “Ach Herr mich armen Sünder” has a theme of eight bars...
The prelude to “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” is already the third of the 7 choral preludes by Kirchhoff’s hand I intend to publish. Kirchhoff gave it the form of an organ...
The prelude to “Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht” is the second of the 7 choral preludes by Kirchhoff’s hand I intend to publish. Technically it is not a difficult composition to play. It does...
Gottfried Kirchhoff (1686 – 1746) was a German organist and composer. He was born in MÜhlbeck and got his musical training from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. Along with Händel, Kirchhoff was one of Zachow’s most...
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
