The next two preludes from manuscript Becker III.8.63, held by the Städtische Bibliotheken Leipzig, share the same tonality, b flat major. The first of these two, publshed here today, has an introduction of 7...
Oley’s prelude to the choral “Wunderbarer König” is written for organ and oboe. In real life it would be difficult to play this composition as one person, but thanks to software it is indeed...
Johann Ernst Rembt (1749-1810) was a German composer and organist who lived during the Classical period. He was born in 1749, although the exact date and place of his birth are not known. He...
Oley wrote two short preludes to the chorale “Christus der ist mein Leben”. They are too short to publish seperately, so here they are together. The first one features the chorale melody in the...
The 13 fantasias in manuscript Becker II 51, owned by the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek, are left without indication of a composer in the manuscript. Nevertheless, some researchers attribute the fantasias in Becker II 51 to...
Oley’s prelude to the choral “Aus tiefer Noth, ruf ich zu dir” features the chorale melody in the tenor voice. The other voices play an accompaniment of which the main motif is derived from...
Playing a composition by Seger brings the question whether or not to play it with the pedals or without. The pedal board of Seger’s organ in the Týn Church in Prague had in his...
In 2015 and 2016 I published over 20 chorale preludes composed by Johann Christoph Oley (1738 – 1789) and created an edition that contained them all (https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-christoph-oley-variierte-chorale/). Recently I found a manuscript (Ec 266.1.1...
It is already almost a year ago I published something in the series of spurious Bach compositions (see here: https://partitura.org/index.php/johann-sebastian…tt-bwv-anh-ii-69/). The next in line is this little fugue about the first fe notes of...
The fourth fantasia from manuscript Becker II.2.51 is based on the third church mode, here centered around “E La Mi”. I am not sure what this actually means. The fantasia that follows this one...
The title of this composition suggests that it offers the possibility to play it endlessly. And indeed, the manuscript indicates with numbers three points suitable for a repeat or a skip. The numbers “1”...
The second prelude to the melody of “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” from Höpner’s opus 2 features the choral melody in the left hand. In this prelude the musical story surrounding the...
Tag’s prelude to the chorale “Lobe den Herren” has the same construction as his prelude to “Wir Christenleut (see here: Christian Gotthilf Tag, Wir Christenleut). The chorale melody is not used as a cantus...
The third fantasia from manuscript Becker II.2.51 is again a Fantasia written in the second church mode, this time cetered around G. It is a bit shorter than the second fantasia and features only...
Seger’s prelude in G major (l 9) features a short introduction of 9 bars that leads to the tonic of G major, after which the actual piece starts in “Alla breve” time. I guess...
