Pachelbel’s prelude to “Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn” has the choral melody in the bass. The upper two voices play a free, fast moving accompaniment, with short segments of fore imitation. There is...
This chorale prelude is the twin of the one (TWV 31:51) I posted yesterday. Where TWV 31:51 is very ‘keyboard’ in nature, TWV 31:52 is more instrumental. It is easy to imagine the accompanying...
In this chorale prelude Telemann writes broken chords for the right hand, while the chorale melody is played with the left hand. The festive text of the first verse of this chorale led me...
Zachow wrote at least four preludes based on the melody of “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her”. Three can already be found on my site. Today follows the fourth. The chorale melody is...
Since advent started today, it is time for a few more pieces of music suited for the advent and Christmas period. Perhaps they will come in handy in the many services that are to...
Buxtehude’s second prelude to “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen”, BuxWV 220, is very unlike its twin prelude, BuxWV 220. Where that one is Buxtehude’s familiar monodic style, BuxWV 221 is full of grandeur,...
The end of another series is near. Zachow’s preludes to “Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott” is the last of the Neumeister-choräle-not-by-Johann_Sebastian-Bach left for me to publish. Written in the style antico, it show...
The Neumeister Sammlung contains 5 chorale preludes written by Georg Andreas Sorge, Neumeister’s teacher at the organ. This is the fifth and last one of them. A simple three part setting of “Freu dich...
Buxtehude’s prelude to “Von Gott will ich nicht lassen”, BuxWV 220, is in his familiar style. The soprano voice plays the choral melody with colourfull embelishments. The other voices accompanythe solo voice with elements...
The Neumeister Sammlung contains 5 chorale preludes written by Georg Andreas Sorge, Neumeister’s teacher at the organ. This is the fourth of them. Allthough Sorge uses simple means in composing this piece, the result...
The Neumeister Sammlung contains 5 chorale preludes written by Georg Andreas Sorge, Neumeister’s teacher at the organ. The five pieces by Sorge were probably added after Neumeister copied the main repertoire in his manuscript....
Three pieces in Neumeister’s manuscript bear the ascription “J. C. Bach”. Since so many of the pieces in this manuscript were composed by Johann Michael Bach, it is an obvious supposition that Johann Michael’s...
Manuscript Becker III.8.43. owned by the Sachsische Landes- und Universitatsbibliothek contains 4 fugues by Johann Ludwig Krebs. I already published three of them, so it is time for the last one. For a fugue...
Three pieces in Neumeister’s manuscript bear the ascription “J. C. Bach”. Since so many of the pieces in this manuscript were composed by Johann Michael Bach, it is an obvious supposition that Johann Michael’s...
The last of the pieces by Johann Michael Bach from Neumeister’s collection is the prelude to “Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist”. It develops as a dialog between soprano and bass voice, with each in...
