Johann Pachelbel, Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot
Pachelbel’s prelude to “Dies sind die heilgen zehn gebot” is also a fugue on the first phrase of the choral melody. It strikes me as such a powerful piece, that I think it is...
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Johann Sebastian Bach (?), O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross, BWV Anh. II 61
The Anhang II of Schmieder’s catalogue of Bach’s composition contains the spurious works. Number 61 of these is a chorale prelude on the melody of “O Mensch bewein dein Sünde groos”. The melody of...
Johann Pachelbel, Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn
Pachelbel’s prelude to “Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn” has the choral melody in the bass. The upper two voices play a free, fast moving accompaniment, with short segments of fore imitation. There is...
Anonymus (Johann Pachelbel?), Was mein Gott will, das gescheh allzeit
Five of the pieces in the Neumeister manuscript are without a named composer. Based on stylistical grounds and on references to other sources two of these pieces can be attributed to Johan Pachelbel, two...
Anonymus (Johann Pachelbel?), Christ lag in Todesbanden
Five of the pieces in the Neumeister manuscript are without a named composer. Based on stylistical grounds and on references to other sources two of these pieces can be attributed to Johan Pachelbel, two...
Johann Pachelbel, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
Pachelbel’s prelude to “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her” has the choral melody in the bass. The hands accompany the melody in a two part texture. The same technique is often used by...
Johann Pachelbel, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
A prelude by Pachelbel in the same style as employed by Johann Michael Bach in the prelude I uploaded recently. Although there are differences: the melody doubling in the tenor voice is absent in...
Johann Pachelbel, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Johann Pachelbel may or may not have been the teacher of Andreas Armsdorf. Fact this that both composed a chorale prelude on the melody of “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern” that show some striking...
Choral preludes from Mus. Ms. 30439
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30439 owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is an interesting manuscript. It contains five different fascicles, some reasonably preserved, others deteriorated to the point of not being readable anymore. The second...
Johann Pachelbel, Gott Vater der du deine Sohn
The last two pieces of the second fascicle of Mus Ms 30439 were written by Johann Pachelbel and Johan Michael Bach. That makes the total of pieces with a known composer to 7: 4...
Johann Pachelbel, Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt
The 11th piece from the second fascicle of manuscript Mus Ms 30439 is in other sources attributed to Pachelbel. But the version in this manuscript differs in lots of places from the Breitkopf edition,...
Johann Pachelbel, Herr Christ der einig Gottes Sohn
The choral prelude on “Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn” is in other sources attributed to Pachelbel. The version in manuscript Mus Ms 40349 differs in only two or three details from the Breitkopf...
Johann Michael Bach, Nun lasst uns Gott dem Herren
(Update, 6 june 2018: Based on the Neumeister manuscript, this piece is more likely to be composed by Johann Michael Bach than by Johann Pachelbel. The text of the post is updated accordingly. The...
Johann Pachelbel, Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
A little left over from the Christmas period. I forgot to post this one three weeks ago. I could wait till the end of this year, but chances are I’d have forgotten this piece...