Richter’s Prelude and Fuge in E flat major is again a great work. Richter’s idiom is thouroughly rooted in Baroque idiom and rhetoric , as is for example evident from the ‘Seufzer'(sigh) figure in...
The prelude of this work is a beautifull, Mendelsohn-like, piece. It is not unlike the third part of Mendelsohn’s fourth Sonata, even if that piece is in F major and this one in a...
The source for this publication is a handwritten copy by August Wilhelm Bach of 6 preludes and fugues composed by Ernst Friedrich Richter. Though only one of the others has an opus number, this...
The source for this publication is a handwritten copy by August Wilhelm Bach of 6 preludes and fugues composed by Ernst Friedrich Richter. One of them has an opus number, but the rest has...
The source for this publication is a handwritten copy by August Wilhelm Bach of 6 preludes and fugues composed by Ernst Friedrich Richter. One of them has an opus number, but the rest has...
Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (1808 – 1879), was a German musical theorist, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that...
Richter’s trio on “Aus tiefer Noth schrei ich zu dir” is the last one of his six trio’s from opus 20. It is again a well crafted piece, that shows Richter’s fondness of the...
Richter’s fifth Trio from his opus 20 is the only ‘free’ trio of the 6 contained in that opus. Unlike the five others it is not based on a choral melody. Intruiging is that...
Richter’s trio on “Jesu meine Freude” is one of those pieces that is just “WOW”. Like the trio on “O Gott, du frommer Gott” it reminds me a bit of an aria in a...
Richter’s opus 20 is a collection of 6 Trio’s, 5 of which are based on a choral melody. A very bad and hardly readable scan of Richter’s opus 20 is available on imslp. They...
Richter’s opus 20 is a collection of 6 Trio’s, 5 of which are based on a choral melody. A very bad and hardly readable scan of Richter’s opus 20 is available on imslp. To...
Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (1808 – 1879), was a German musical theorist, born at Großschönau, Saxony. He first studied music at Zittau, and afterwards at Leipzig, where he attained so high a reputation that...
