Category: Lohet, Simon

The twelfth fugue by Lohet is a slow flowing piece. It’s very reminisence of a Kyrie by da Palestrina: long lines intertwine gracefully with each other, in slowly changing harmonies. The recording was done...

Playing the eleventh fugue of Lohet one wonders wether Bach knew the fugues of Lohet. The theme of the fugue BWV 878 is the same as the theme of Undecima Fuga. And Bach uses...

The tenth fugue by Lohet is a lively piece. It’s not exactly a mono thematic fugue, as there are four different segments discernable. Actually quite an achievement for a piece of only 46 bars....

Lohet’s Nona fuga has a far more subdued character than most of the preceeding fugues. I think it can best be played with use of the pedals. But I made a manuals-only version as...

Another dance-like fugue of Lohet. Apart from some unusual (to our ‘modern’ ears) harmonic progressions, this piece could have been written a 100 years later than it actually was. The recording was done on...

Lohet’s Septima Fuga is actually two small fugues in one piece. Two different (but related) themes each get an exposition and then the fugue is over. Yet it is a pleasant dance like piece,...

Lohet’s sixth fugue, though short, uses contrapuntal devices as stretto and diminution and combines them as well. In that respect it is more modern than the fifth fugue. The harmonic progression though is in...

Lohet’s Quinta Fuga (I follow the designation in the original Edition, instead of naming it Fuga Quinta) shows its Renaissance roots more than the previous four. It uses frequent repeated chords, a device we...

The fourth fugue of Simon Lohet offers a few surprises. At least to me. Firstly, parallel fifths and parallel octaves apparently weren’t as ‘forbidden’ in Lohet’s days as they became in later years. In...

The third fugue of Lohet from Johann Woltz’s Nova musices organicae tabulatura (Basel, 1617). The recording was done with the sampleset, made by Organ Art Media, of the Arp Schnitger organ in Steinkirchen. Score...

The second fugue of Lohet from Johann Woltz’s Nova musices organicae tabulatura (Basel, 1617). The harmonic progression in this second fugue sometimes sounds a bit strange to our “modern” ears. But for the largest...

Simon Lohet (Loxhay) (c. 1550 – 1611) was a Flemish composer, possibly born in Maastricht. During his live he was mostly active in Germany. He was organist of the Württemberg court of count Louis...