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...
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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...
Anonymus, Praeludium (Ms Lynar B3, page 32)
For an introduction to the Lynar B3 manuscript, see here. Though the name of the composer of most of the preludia is not known, they all follow more or less the same pattern. An...
Anonymus, Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn
The Lynar manuscripts were preserved in the holdings of the Duke of Lynar in Lübbenau, and are therefore also known as the Lübbenauer Orgeltabulaturen. Two of them, large codices in staff notation, bear the...
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...
Christian Erbach, Fantasia sexti toni
The ninth piece in manuscript Ms Lynar B3 is an anonymous Fantasia, written in the sixth tone. Though it is anonymous in this manuscript, in the organ book of Matthias Rottenau (held in the...
Christian Reichardt, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
The same manuscript that contains Christian Reichardt’s prelude to “Vater unser im Himmelreich” contains three more preludes that were probably written by Reichardt. The last of these three, is a three part prelude to...
Dietrich Buxtehude, Wär Gott nicht mit uns, dieser Zeit (BuxWV 222)
“Wär Gott nicht mit uns dieser Zeit” is a Lutheran hymn. Martin Luther based the words for this hymn on psalm 124 and evoces in this hymn vividly that men’s life depends on God’s...