Like most of the fantasias from manuscript Becker II.2.51 the Fantasia Septimi Toni ex G is structurally divided into three sections or episodes. Though the music flows uninterrupted, it is easy to recognize when...
Heinrich Nicolaus Gerber (1702 – 1775) was a German composer and organist. He received his first musical education from Irrgang in Bellstedt. In 1717 he went to Mühlhausen, where he found a stimulating musical...
A little over a week ago I published the score of an anonymous choral prelude to the choral Wo soll ich fliehen hin (see here: https://partitura.org/index.php/anonymus-wo-soll-ich-fliehen-hin/). As the composition is left incomplete in the...
[update, april 5th, 2025] It has come to my attention, that in other publications this composition is attributed to Johann Gottfried Müthel. This assumption is based on the fact that Müthel is the scribe...
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...
