Somehow anonymus pieces are less popular than pieces we know the composer of. And where the compositions with known composers get published, the anonymus compositions are often overlooked. And that’s all the more the...
More than 8 years ago, I published a chorale prelude by Heinrich Michael Keller, stating that it was the only known chorale prelude by his hand that survived to the present day (see the...
Score Larghetto ostinato Performance After I (finally) finished the Fantasia I published last week, I wanted to compose new. And as I had learned that inspiration doesn’t come spontaneously, I just sat down and...
Score Fantasia “Tota pulchra es” Performance “Tota pulchra es” is an old Catholic prayer, written in the fourth century. It is one of the five antiphons for the psalms of Second Vespers for the...
One of the most popular compositions from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein is undoubtedly the prelude to the choral “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639. In this composition the evocative mood of the choral...
Seger’s prelude in C (L 20) is probably meant as a manualiter piece. For the true virtuoso it is of course possible to play the bass line with the feet, but I would have...
Among the many many compositions that may or may not have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach, is the little choral partita “Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen”. It features a four part setting...
Since manuscript Becker III.8.63 notates the music on just two staves, it is most of the tmes a bit of a guess wether or not a the pedals have a role or not. Sometimes...
The ninth Fantasia from manuscript Becker II 51, owned by the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, is based on two themes or motives. Both are introduced in the first 6 bars of the fantasia. Though it is...
The 18th composition from manuscript Becker III.8.63 is a prelude in B flat major. It is a nice play with the motif introduced in bars two and three. The prelude wanders up and down...
The next compositin from manuscript Becker III.8.63 is a prelude in E flat major. I sometimes wonder how close the versions in manuscript Becker III.8.63 are to Seger’s original compositions. This prelude in E...
Rudolf Löw (1832 – 1898) was a Swiss organist and composer. He was a student of Carl Ferdinand Becker (Orgel) and Ignaz Moscheles (Piano). In 1864 he became first organist in the newly build...
The numbering of this fugue and the preceding prelude in manuscript Becker III.8.63 (16a and 16b) suggests they belong together and should be played as one “Prelude and Fugue”. If that’s true than it...
In 1787 Rembt published 12 Trios for organ. Manuscript Ec 268.5, held by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Bonn, contains 6 of these 12 Trios.The last of these six is a trio in E flet...
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...
