The prelude on ‘Ermuntre dich mein schwacher Geist’ is transcribed from “The Wöchentliche Nachrichten und Anmerkungen die Musik betreffend”. This journal appeared weekly in Leipzig from 1 July 1766 to 24 December 1770. Most...
An interesting feature of the melody of the chorale “Eins ist Noth” is its change from binary rythm to ternary rythm. Kirnberger made an elegant piece based on this melody. The recording was done...
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30377, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains four Prelude & Fugues by Johann Schneider. In the manuscript they are called just ‘Praeludium’, but since the fugue-part of the pieces is very...
One of the attractive bicinia Kehl seems to have had a patent on. The festive subject of the choral is a bit at odds with the dramatic e minor, yet Kehl manages to circumvent...
Of course I had to try Lohet on my new sample set as well. Lohet’s eighteenth fugue is again some dense contrapuntal writing. The first part of the fugue is setup as a mono...
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30377, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, contains four Prelude & Fugues by Johann Schneider. In the manuscript they are called just ‘Praeludium’, but since the fugue-part of the pieces is very...
The ‘Prealudium zu einem Dank- oder Lobliede’ is transcribed from “The Wöchentliche Nachrichten und Anmerkungen die Musik betreffend”. This journal appeared weekly in Leipzig from 1 July 1766 to 24 December 1770. Most of...
The first chorale prelude in manuscript Am. B 396, owned by the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, is a three part manualiter prelude on the melody of “Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ”. Even though it’s meant...
In his fiftheenth fugue Lohet experiments with inversion. After the first statement of the first theme, it is immediately answered by its inversion. The third and fourth statement of the theme are respectively its...
Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708 – 1776) was a German-Danish composer and critic and theorist of music. He was born in Leipzig as the son of Johann Scheibe, an organ builder. At 11 he entered...
Even in a simple bicinium texture, Kehl manages to create a highly attractive piece, that is not too difficult, yet rewarding for both player and listener. The recording was done on the sample set...
The prelude on “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her” is a bicinium with the choral melody in long notes in the right hand and an elaborately worked out accompaniment in the left hand....
The fourteenth fugue of Lohet is again a calm flowing piece. It makes extensive use of syncopation, which makes a nice ‘wobly’ effect in the flow of the music. I recorded it using the...
Almost a year ago I published a version of this piece, based on manuscript Mus.ms. 30194, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. That version was transcribed by S.M.D. Gattermann and initially seen as a piece...
The chorale prelude on “Ach bleib mit deiner Gnad” by Kehl looks a bit daunting at first. But the 64th notes are more like written out trills or turns, than that they should be...
