Though Kehl’s music is mostly manualiter, with occasionally a rather lonely pedal note written in, sometimes he writes a full swing pedaliter piece. The choral prelude to “Was mein Gott will, das gescheh allzeit’...
Marpurg’s Fugue in D major a 3 Voci, taken his “Fughe e Capricci per clavicembalo o per l’organo” is a bit more serious affair than the fugue in A major I published 6 days...
A few days ago I started a new series with compositions by Fuga con seggetto doppio (see here. Today follows the second composition in this seris, a fugue with two subjects. As far as...
Karges edited several pieces by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck into more than one composition. He gives Sweelink’s Fantasia Chromatica the same treatment. He bases at least two fantasia’s in the manuscript on Swwelink’s original. I...
The next prelude from Kehl’s “Erste Sammlung einiger variierter Choräle” is the prelude to “Liebster Jesu wir sind hier”. Though a lot of Kehl’s music is technically not too demanding, in this case Kehl...
This fugue in a major is the third fugue taken from Mapurg’s “Fughe e Capricci per clavicembalo o per l’organo”. It is a lively three part fugue, that sounds equally well played on harpsichord...
Today I start a new series, with music taken from manuscript Becker III.8.63, owned by the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. This manuscript contains mostly (though not exclusively) music composed by Josef...
Four years ago I started publishing the compositions contained im manuscript Am.B. 340., owned by the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. It has been a lot of work deciphering the manuscript, creating scores, practicing the compositions...
Though Kehl’s music may seem simple, it’s not without it’s merit. It does not require a lot of resources in terms of instrument size or technical skill. Yet his music is a prime example...
Besides a composer, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg was a music theorist as well. One of his publications was “Treatise on the fugue, designed according to the principles and examples of the best German and foreign...
Kehl’s prelude to “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” is again a simple, yet effective piece. The introduction and the coda are written in a three part texture. The chorale melody itself it...
The last dozen or so compositions I published from manuscript Am.B. 340 were all compositions by either Sebastian Anton Scherer or Francois Roberday that Karges adapted to his needs. The Capricio in C is...
The first choral prelude from Kehl’s first volume of choral preludes I had not encountered before in other sources, is a prelude to the choral “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”. It is a...
The chorale preludes by the hand of Friedrich WIlherlm Marpurg I published till now, were all from his two volumes of “Versuch in figurierten Choräle”. The subtitle of both volumes says: “sowohl für die...
Johann Balthasar Kehl (1725 – 1778) was a German organist, cellist and composer. Kehl’s claim to fame are the chorale preludes he published during his time in Erlangen, in four different volumes (Erste bis...
