The only source available for this composition is the Frankenberger manuscript, in the posession of “Het Nederlands Muziekinstituut”, the national library of The Netherlands. The manuscript is named after one of the former posessors...
There remains no autograph of this the Trio in d minor, BWV 583. All sources of this work are copies written somewhere after Bach’s death. Though there were once 11 manuscripts with a version...
Kirchhoff seems to have elvated the ciaconna to his trademark technique for writing a choral prelude. His prelude to the famous melody of “Ach Herr mich armen Sünder” has a theme of eight bars...
The Capricio in A, written on folio 27 of manuscript Am.B 340 bears the intials “B.M.”. It is unknown which composer is meantby these initials. As Karges was familiar with the circle of Sweelinck...
In his adaptations Karges did not only shorten the original compositions he based his adaptations on, sometimes he elongated the originals as well. The Ricercar Primi Toni is an example of the latter. This...
Antonio Vivaldi never was a composor of organ music. Yet some of his works lend themselfes perfectly for transcription for the organ. One of those pieces is the second movement of Vivaldi’s third Flute...
The Fantasia in D, written on folio 25 of manuscript Am.B 340 is again an anonymous work. It is again an Echo Fantasia and has many similarities with the preceding one. I am inclined...
Zachow’s prelude to “Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz” (LV 52) consists of two seperate movenements in manuscript Mus ms 40037. In the catalogue of Zachow’s compositions they are listed under the same entry,...
Karges was familiar with the compositions of Sweelinck through Andreas Düben (1597 – 1662). Düben was a pupil of Sweelinck in Amsterdam from 1614 to 1620. And when Düben became organist of the German...
One of the most unusual compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps you might even call it unique, as it is literally one of a kind is the choral prelude to the choral “Erbarm dich...
The Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek in Dresden posesses a manuscript of 12 organ compositions by Rudolf Löw’s hand. It is his opus 1, which he dedicated to his teacher Carl Ferdinand Becker. Löw mostly...
Karges includes in his manuscript (AM B 340, owned by the Staatbibliothek Berlin) at least three works composed by Heinrich Scheidemann. One of those three appears without Scheidemann’s initials in this manuscript, but is...
The prelude to “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” is already the third of the 7 choral preludes by Kirchhoff’s hand I intend to publish. Kirchhoff gave it the form of an organ...
In manuscript Am. B. 340 Karges writes “J.P.” below the the title of this composition. And in this case it is certain that he means Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, as this piece is based on...
The prelude to “Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht” is the second of the 7 choral preludes by Kirchhoff’s hand I intend to publish. Technically it is not a difficult composition to play. It does...
