Heinrich Scheidemann, Præludium, g moll (WV 41)
The second Prelude by Heinrich Schedemann in the Lynar manuscript B3 is the prelude in g minor, WV 41. It is a bit longer than the e minor one (WV 38) from the same...
The second Prelude by Heinrich Schedemann in the Lynar manuscript B3 is the prelude in g minor, WV 41. It is a bit longer than the e minor one (WV 38) from the same...
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...
[update, 14-04-2019] I just learned that this piece is tentatively ascribed to Johann Heinrich Scheidemann, so I changed score and post title accordingly. For an introduction to the Lynar B3 manuscript, see here. The...
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...
Besides the one Prelude in e minor published some days ago, there survives one other work for keyboard instrument by Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst: the one movement Sonata in A major. According to Spitta and...
For an introduction to the Lynar B3 manuscript, see here. The first complete anonymous piece in the Lynar B3 manuscript is a prelude in D, or perhaps better, primi toni. Although the composer is...
Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst (~1670/1675 – 1725) was a German organist and composer. He was born in or near Celle. Beginning in 1693, he served as an organist at St. Andreas in Hildesheim. In 1697,...
Sorge’s prelude to “Seelen Bräutigam” is the last complete prelude in manuscript Go S 597. The manuscripts contains 5 more chorale preludes but sadly they are incomplete. The prelude to “Seelen Bräutigam” is again...
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 (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...
Sorge’s prelude to “Zeuch ein zu deinen Toren” is in his by now familiar style of trio like introduction, and trio like treatment of the chorale melody. The introduction features twice the first phrase...
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...
In his prelude to “Jesum lieb ich ewiglich” Sorge employs the technique of the canon. Each phrase of the chorale melody is canonically answered in the bass or in the alto voice. The accompaniment...
Fortunato Chelleri (1690 -1757) was an Italian Baroque composer. From his hand is a small bundle of 6 Fughe per il organo, composed around 1725. The sixth and last fugue is the most traditional...
Sorge’s prelude to “Jesus, meine Zuversicht” is another fine example of Sorge’s fine way of using a trio like texture to create a chorale prelude. The introduction is written for two voices and pedal....