Georg Wilhelm Saxer, Präludium und Fuge, D Dur (2)
The last piece in the Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 is a prelude with a fugue. It has no named composer in the manuscript. However, based on the style of the piece I...
The last piece in the Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 is a prelude with a fugue. It has no named composer in the manuscript. However, based on the style of the piece I...
For an introduction to the Lynar B3 manuscript, see here. The prelude has again no indication of a composer in the manuscript. Short as it is, it is a well written work, perhaps a...
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...
The second fugue in the Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 without a named composer, that is nevertheless probably composed by Saxer, is a fugue in C major. It consists of three expositions. In...
As manuscript Ms. Lynar B3 is believed to be compiled in the circle of students of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, it is to be expected that some works of the master himself are contained in...
The same manuscript that contains Christian Reichardt’s prelude to “Vater unser im Himmelreich” contains three more preludes that were probably written by Reichardt. One of these is a fugetta on the first phgrase of...
Besides the works attributed to a composer, the Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 preserves two preludes and fugues and two fugues without a named composer. The fugues share strong similarities with the three...
The fifth piece in the Lynar manuscript B3 is a set of three variations on “Vater unser im Himmelreich”. The composer’s initials are “M.W.C.B.M.”. Max Seiffert was the first to forward that these initials...
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 first of these three, a prelude to “Allein zu dir...
Besides the works attributed to a composer, the Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 preserves two preludes and fugues and two fugues without a named composer. The preludes are in the North German style...
Buttstett’s prelude tot “Es stehn für Gottes Throne” is a three part piece, with the choral melody in the soprano voice. Intruiging is that in the manuscript source the scribe in three different places...
The list of possible or spurious Bach works extends beyond the BWV-catalogue. Reinmar Emans made a list (around 1997) of chorale preludes that could possibly have been written by Johann Sebastian Bach. The list...
While preparing an edition containing all the works-not-by-JS-Bach from the Neumseister Sammlung, I found one work I have not yet published: Johann Michael’s Bach prelude to “Auf meinen Gott”. I did create a score,...
Georg Wilhelm Saxer (? – 1740) was a German Baroque composer and organist. The Leipziger manuscript with signature Becker II.2.51 preserves three preludes and fugues by his hands, and two more anonymous preludes that...
Writing a good and attractive bicinium is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks in writing music for the organ. Playing a bicinium is definitely one of the most difficult tasks in playing the...