Kittel’s sixth and last fugue is the most ambitious of the six. It has all the usual trickery of a fugue: inversion, dimunition, augmentation, and stretto. The only thing missing is the backwards motion...
Kittel’s fifth fugue is a three voice fugue with a chromatic theme. The the appears some 13 times in just 48 bars, two times in a row in one voice and once in stretto....
Not a suitable chorale to celebrate the day, just a playful, merry fugue. Two voice fugues are perhaps the most difficult to write, and the most difficult to play. Every little detail in the...
In the years around 1770 a little tradition developed in Berlin to compose and publish small collections of manual fugues, that could either be played on the organ or on the harpsichord. Examples of...
In the years around 1770 a little tradition developed in Berlin to compose and publish small collections of manual fugues, that could either be played on the organ or on the harpsichord. Examples of...
Manuscript Mus ms Bach P287, owned by the Staatbibliothek zu Berlin, contains 6 keyboard fugues by Johann Christian Kittel. They are amongst the first works I transcribed, back in 2014, practising my engraving software...
A nice little prelude by Kittel, one of the many from a manuscript Mus.1-U-514. Based on the last two notes it is probably meant for harpsichord, yet it sounds equally well on an organ....
A short, 3 part fugue by Kittel, on the first phrase of the chorale melody. There are a few unlikely spots in the manuscript that I corrected in the score. As usual, the original...
Kittel wrote two small preludes to “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier”. The first is more or less in the style of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein. The second is a gigue, based on the choral melody. Since...
The Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) owns a manuscript (Mus.1-U-514) which contains works by Johann Christian Kittel. They range from very short preludes to elaborate sets of variations. This is one...
The Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) owns a manuscript (Mus.1-U-514) which contains works by Johann Christian Kittel. They range from very short preludes to elaborate sets of variations. One of these...
Kittel wrote two charming, little preludes to “O Trautigkeit, o Herzeleid”, a bicinium and a siciliano. Since they are really small I decided to put them as one post. The recording was done on...
The Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) owns a manuscript (Mus.1-U-514) which contains works by Johann Christian Kittel. They range from very short preludes to elaborate sets of variations. I already posted...
The second prelude on “Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut” is the more interesting of the two. Having a flowing almost dancelike 12/8 rhythm it bears a strong resemblance to the prelude on...
The chorale “Sei Lob und Ehr’ dem höchsten Gut” was written in 1673 by Johann Jakob Schütz. It was sung on the melody of “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her”. Bach wrote his...
