Oley’s fondness of canons sometimes leads to beautifull compositions, but every so often the result is stiff or just plain boring. An example of the latter is Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Nun sich...
The eigth Fantasia from manuscript Becker II 51, owned by the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, features again three sections, this time with three different themes. Each section has an easy recognizable close, so it should not...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält” is a short manualiter piece in f minor. Oley has the melody cleverly hidden in plain sight. With a changed rythm...
All compositions contained in manuscript Becker III.8.63, held by the Städtische Bibliotheken Leipzig, are in the manuscript all ascribed to Seger. Nevertheless, quite a few compositions are in other sources attributed to other composers....
This is the second chorale prelude by Oley to the melody of “Wir Christenleut” that I publish. The first can be found here: https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…wir-christenleut/. Where the first one has a rather subdued characdter, this...
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 third of these six is a trio in C major...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Der Tag ist hin, mein Jesu bei mir bleiben” is to my ears ons of the most beautiful preludes Oley wrote. The pedal plays short bass notes and the...
The second Fantasia Quinti Toni ex F moll, from manuscript Becker II 51, owned by the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, features three fugato-like sections. The first two sections merge into one another, the beginning of the...
This prelude to the chorale “Ach was soll ich Sünder machen” is the third one Oley wrote based on this melody. The first two (https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…ch-sunder-machen/ and https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph…-sunder-machen-2/) feature an elaborated pedal part. This third...
Seger’s prelude in B flat major (L 13) is very similar to the prelude of the same tonality that precedes it in the manuscript (L 12). This prelude could probably be played with the...
Oley’s prelude to the chorale “Danket dem Herren” is a densely written manualiter piece with the chorale melody in a canon in the fourth. Oley really liked canons, though I tend to think that...
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 second of these six is a trio in G major....
The choral “O jesu du mein Bräutigam” has the same melody as the choral “Herr Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht”. Oley writes a manualiter piece with the choral melody in canon between the soprano...
The first fantasia quinti toni from manuscript Becker II 51 a single theme, though the composition is clearly divided into three sections. The theme of the piece is introduced in the tenor voice, and...
Manuscript Ec 266.1.2, held by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Bonn, is the source of a few more choral preludes by Johann Christoph Oley that I have not published before. The first of these from...
