Ernest Grosjean, Offertoire funèbre
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
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Anonymus (Kirchhoff?), Ciaconna “Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns” (2)
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, O Lamm Gottes unschuldig (LV 40)
Zachow wrote a nice three part chorale prelude to “O Lamm Gottes unschuldig”. The chorale melody is in the upper voice, while the other two voices play an accompaniment in eigth notes. It is...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia in A (2)
The next composition in manuscript Am.B. 340 (after the Fantasia in G, published last week) is again an anonymous composition and I do not know on which original it might be based. The composition...
Ernest Grosjean, Memento
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Anonymus (Kirchhoff?), Ciaconna “Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns”
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains 5 chorale preludes to “Jesus Christus, under Heiland, der von uns”. Three of them were composed by Zachow, two remain anonymous. Though there is...
Wilhelm Karges (?), Fantasia in G
Manuscript Am.B. 340, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains some 45 organ pieces, presumably copied, adapted and/or composed by Wilhelm Karges. The model or original of this Fantasia in G is not known to...
Ernest Grosjean, Prélude
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der von uns (LV 19)
The full first phrase of this choral reads “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wandt” (Jesus Christ, our Savior, who turned God’s wrath away from us). Martin Luther wrote it around...
Ernest Grosjean, Offertoire bref
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) published “Pièces pour orgue ou harmonium”, a set of 56 pieces in two volumes, in 1902. The first volume contains 33 easy pieces, that can be played without the...
Wilhelm Karges & Johann Jakob Froberger, Capriccio
Manuscript Am.B. 340, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains some 45 organ pieces, presumably copied by Wilhelm Karges. Of some of the compositions contained in this manuscript the original model and composer is known....
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Christ lag in Todebanden, LV 47(b)
Yesterday I published the first of two preludes to “Christ lag in Todesbanden”, contained in manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The first of these is acribed to Zachow in the...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Christ lag in Todebanden, LV 47(a)
Manuscript Mus ms 40037, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains over 40 choral preludes composed by Zachow or his pupil Kirchhof. Transcribing these preludes is a nice new project for the new year. I’ll...
Rudolf Löw, Erstanden ist der heilge Christ
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...
Wilhelm Karges (?), Fantasia in D
[update, 21-03-2021] I finally deduced what the meaning is of this sign: It signifies a repeat. That means that in this particular piece there is a repeat near the end that I had hitherto...