Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Ermuntre dich mein schwacher Geist” is the last one chorale prelude taken from manuscript Ec 266.1.2. I kept this one as the final composition to be published because of...
A chorale prelude to “Wie gross ist des Allmächt’gen Güte” is not something you come often across. And there appear to be several melodies in use for this particular choral. As far as I...
Some of Oley’s chorale preludes are a bit more difficult to play than most others. The prelude to the chorale “Wenn meine Sünd mich kränken” is one of the more difficult ones. It is...
Oley’s fondness of canons sometimes leads to beautifull compositions, but every so often the result is stiff or just plain boring. An example of the latter is Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Nun sich...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält” is a short manualiter piece in f minor. Oley has the melody cleverly hidden in plain sight. With a changed rythm...
This is the second chorale prelude by Oley to the melody of “Wir Christenleut” that I publish. The first can be found here: https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…wir-christenleut/. Where the first one has a rather subdued characdter, this...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Der Tag ist hin, mein Jesu bei mir bleiben” is to my ears ons of the most beautiful preludes Oley wrote. The pedal plays short bass notes and the...
This prelude to the chorale “Ach was soll ich Sünder machen” is the third one Oley wrote based on this melody. The first two (https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…ch-sunder-machen/ and https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…-sunder-machen-2/) feature an elaborated pedal part. This third...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Danket dem Herren” is a densely written manualiter piece with the chorale melody in a canon in the fourth. Oley really liked canons, though I tend to think that...
The choral “O jesu du mein Bräutigam” has the same melody as the choral “Herr Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht”. Oley writes a manualiter piece with the choral melody in canon between the soprano...
Manuscript Ec 266.1.2, held by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Bonn, is the source of a few more choral preludes by Johann Christoph Oley that I have not published before. The first of these from...
The next two preludes from manuscript Becker III.8.63, held by the Städtische Bibliotheken Leipzig, share the same tonality, b flat major. The first of these two, publshed here today, has an introduction of 7...
Oley’s prelude to the choral “Wunderbarer König” is written for organ and oboe. In real life it would be difficult to play this composition as one person, but thanks to software it is indeed...
Oley wrote two short preludes to the chorale “Christus der ist mein Leben”. They are too short to publish seperately, so here they are together. The first one features the chorale melody in the...
Oley’s prelude to the choral “Aus tiefer Noth, ruf ich zu dir” features the chorale melody in the tenor voice. The other voices play an accompaniment of which the main motif is derived from...
