David Abel, Præludium pedaliter
The manuscript Ms Lynar B3 contains two preludes which in the manuscript are attributed to David Abel (~1580 – 1639). About this David Abel (or Äbel or Ebel) is not much known. He was...
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Giovanni Gabrieli, Fuga Colorata
Four weeks ago I published a composition from Johann Woltz’s “Nova musices organicae tabulatura”, (Basel, 1617) called “Fuga colorata” (http://partitura.org/index.php/anonymus-fuga-colorata/). The question at the time was whether or not it could have been composed...
M.W.C.B.M, O Mensch, bewein deine Sünde gross
In the Baroque era (and earlier) composers of (organ) music were in manuscripts often indicated by there initials, or not at all. Manuscripts were often shared and copied in circles of people who knew...
Anonymus, O Herre Gott, begnade mich
This is the fourth of the unedited anonymus choral preludes from manuscript KN 209, owned owned by the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg I have the privilige to publish. This is really a magnificent composition, based...
Anonymus, Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist
This is the third of the unedited anonymus choral preludes from manuscript KN 209, owned owned by the Ratsbücherei in Lüneburg I have the privilige to publish. I is a relatively straightforward manualiter composition....
Anonymus (Johan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?), Fantasia
Yesterday I wrote that the choral bound works in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 are of greater quality than the free works. The free work from this manuscript I publish today, is not a good...
Anonymus, Vater unser im Himmelreich
My impression of the compositions contained in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 until now is that the choral bound works are of greater quality than the free works. The preludes give for the largest part...
Neumeister Choräle, not by J.S. Bach, Part II
Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1757 – 1840) was a German teacher and organist. Nowadays Neumeister would have been forgotten if it wasn’t for the collection of chorale preludes he compiled in the years shortly after...
Anonymus, Fuga Colorata
Almost three years a go I created a publication containing all organ works by Simon Lohet (Loxhay) (c. 1550 – 1611), a Flemish composer, possibly born in Maastricht. The primary source for Lohet’s remaining...
Anonymous, Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein
These anonymous compositions contained in the manuscript with the designation “KN 209”, owned bij the Ratsbücherei, Lüneburg, are largely unedited. And that is a shame, because even though anonymous it is fine music and...
Anonymus, 2 Præludia (Ms Lynar B3, page 32 & 34)
The Lynar manuscript Ms Lynar B3 contains 38 compositions, 11 of which can be assigned to specific composers: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Heinrich Scheidemann, David Abel, Andreas and Martin Düben, Petrus Hasse, and Simon Lohet....
Anonymus, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland
The manuscript with the designation “KN 209”, owned bij the Ratsbücherei, Lüneburg, is written in German organ tablature and is one of the most important sources for North German organ music, noth in size...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Trio IX (completed)
Georg Andreas Sorge (1703 – 1778) wrote eleven Trios for organ. Or perhaps he wrote more, but eleven of them survived in manuscript form till today. That is to say: one of them is...
Anonymus, Praeludium secundi Toni (Ms Lynar B3, page 36)
This prelude is somewhat different from the other preludes from manuscript Ms Lynar B3 I published until now. It’s form does not consist of three seperate sections and there is no imitatory section. This...
Ernest Grosjean, Elévation
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...