The fifth prelude from Vallade’s “Dreyfaches Musicalisches Exercitium”. For a short biography of Vallade and the first prelude see here. The texture of the fifth preambulum is a bit thin in my eyes (ears)....
An interesting prelude by Kauffmann on this Christmas choral. All phrases of the melody are introduces and accompanied by themselves in diminution. It gives a surprising grandeur to the melody itself. The recording was...
The fourth prelude from Vallade’s “Dreyfaches Musicalisches Exercitium”. For a short biography of Vallade and the first prelude see here The recording was done on the new sample set of the Holzey organ of...
One of the three preludes by Buttstett on “Gottes Sohn ist kkommen”. It has the melody in the bass. The recording was done on the new sample set of the Holzey organ of St....
The third prelude from Vallade’s “Dreyfaches Musicalisches Exercitium”. Even though Vallade uses a typical Baroque form, this prelude show clearly the transtition to the classical period. For a short biography and the first prelude...
The second prelude from Vallade’s “Dreyfaches Musicalisches Exercitium” is a gently flowing piece. Unlike most other fugues by Vallade, this fugue is three parts throughout the whole piece. For a short biography and the...
Johann Baptist Anton Vallade was born circa 1720 in Ingolstadt and lived till presumably 1780 in Mendorf. Not much is known about his life. He must have been educated in or around Ingolstadt. In...
Walther is of course well known, and as such not really the subject of Partitura Organum. But this piece is too beautiful and fits the time of year too well to ignore. It is...
The second prelude on “Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut” is the more interesting of the two. Having a flowing almost dancelike 12/8 rhythm it bears a strong resemblance to the prelude on...
The chorale “Sei Lob und Ehr’ dem höchsten Gut” was written in 1673 by Johann Jakob Schütz. It was sung on the melody of “Es ist das Heil uns kommen her”. Bach wrote his...
Mus.Ms. 22541 II contains three chorale preludes by Buttstett on “Gottes Sohn ist kommen”. The first of the three has the chorale melody in the bass, with lots of embellishments and flourishes in the...
“Valet will ich dir geben” (“I want to bid you farewell”) is a Lutheran hymn, written by Valerius Herberger in 1613. Herberger wrote the hymn in response to the plague in Fraustadt, as a...
One of the many short choral preludes by Kittel. It is setup as a fugue on the first phrase of the melody. The recording was done on the sample set of the Van Dam...
The Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) owns a manuscript (Mus.1-U-514) which contains works by Johann Christian Kittel. They range from very short preludes to elaborate sets of variations. A few months...
Balthasar Kehl (1724 – 1778) was a German organist, cellist and composer. He began his education at the Ratschule in Coburg in 1734 and in 1742 he moved to Bayreuth, where he studied under...
