Ernest Grosjean, Offertoire
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...
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Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Vater unser im Himmelreich (alio modo)(2)
Kaufmann wrote three choral preludes to “Vater unser im Himmelreich”, two of which are bicinia. This is the second bicinium, with the chorale melody in the bassvoice. Like in the other bicinium is based...
Johann Michael Bach, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
I already published two versions of Johann Michael Bach’s prelude to “Allein Gott in het Höh sei Ehr”. (see here and here). The Neumeister Sammlung contains a third version of this piece. The major...
Johann Christoph Bach, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
Johann Christoph Bach (1642 – 1703) was the eldest son of Heinrich Bach and (thus) a brother of Johann Michael Bach. In 1685 he was appointed town organist at St George’s in Eisenach and...
Ernest Grosjean, Sortie
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...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Vater unser im Himmelreich
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....
Ernest Grosjean, Canzone
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...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Vater unser im Himmelreich (alio modo)
Kaufmann wrote three choral preludes to “Vater unser im Himmelreich”. The second is a bicinium, with the choral melody in the soprano voice. The accompaniment in the left hand part is also based on...
Ernest Grosjean, Offertoire
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...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott (alio modo)
Sorge’s second chorale prelude to “Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott” from manuscript Mus Ms 30376 (Staatsbibliothek Berlin) shows him from another side. No trio like texture, but an imitatory introduction based on the first...
Ernest Grosjean, Duetto
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...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott
Manuscript Mus Ms 30376 (Staatsbibliothek Berlin) contains 4 chorale prelude that were certainly written by Sorge and 2 that were probably/possibly written by Sorge. Combined with the Sorge preludes from the Neumeister Sammlung, and...
Ernest Grosjean, Prière
Ernest Grosjean (1844 – 1936) was born in Vagney (Vosges). After studying piano, organ, harmony, music composition and fugue he became organist in the cathedral of Uzès (Gard) in 1864. Four years later he...
Johann Christian Kittel, Fuga a 3 Voce, F dur
Kittel’s sixth and last fugue is the most ambitious of the six. It has all the usual trickery of a fugue: inversion, dimunition, augmentation, and stretto. The only thing missing is the backwards motion...
Wilhelm Karges, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Fantasia d dorian
The original source of this piece in manuscript Am B 340 is a Fantasia in D Dorian by Johann Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The original fantasia is some 12 minutes long. Karges boils it down to...