The melody of “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” is almost perfect for the warm mildly chromatic harmonic style of Christian Gottlog Höpner. Which is probably why his opus 2 contains two preludes...
In his prelueㅇe to the melody of “Gott Vater sende deine Geist” (which is the same melody as “Kommt her zu mir, spricht Gottes Sohn”) Tag writes the introductuin on two different staves, suggesting...
The four part fugua in G major is the last composition from Marpurg’s “Fughe and Capricci per l’clavicembalo o per l’organo”, of which a digital copy is available online on the websiote of the...
A few years ago I published music composed by Georg Wilhelm Saxer (see here: Saxer, Georg Wilhelm). That music was taken from manuscript Becker II.2.51, owned by the Stadtbibliothek Leipzig. Besides the music of...
Seger’s Fuga in C major could be combines with the preceding Prelude (L 6) to create the idiomatic combination of “Prelude and fugue”. It’s almost certain that they were not intended as an indivisible...
The second choral prelude fromHöpner’s opus 2, “Acht Vorspiele und zwei Fugen”, is a prelude based on the melody of “Befiehl du deine Wege”. That melody is probably the most famous because it is...
This Præludium is the last composition from Am. B. 340. I started publishing the compositions from this manuscript almost 5 years ago and now finally, 5 years and 44 compositions later the job is...
Is it coincidence that Kehl usedone of his most beautiful compositions as the last composition in his “Erste Sammlung”? Or was it the decision of a clever business man, to wet the appetites for...
Marpurg’s fugue in B flat major, is a two part fugue that shows more likeness to a capricio or to one of Bach’s inventions, than to a classic fugue. In that respect it is...
Tag’s prelude tot the choral “Ich weiß daß mein Erlöser lebt” is again a nice composition. Tag writes an almost frivolous accompaniment with many many triplets staccato eight notes, that contracsts very nicely with...
Seger’s Præambulum in C Dur (L 6) is the second prelude of many in manuscript Becker III.8.63 that feature some form in introduction in long static chords. The first one was the prelude in...
This is the last Echo Fantasia from manuscript Am.B. 340. It consists of two echo episodes and a closing episodes in which the echo play is not as pronounced as in the first two...
In the prelude to the choral “Jesu der du meine Seele” Kehl specifically writes “pedal” near the bass notes at the beginning of the piece but not in the remainder of the piece. So...
Marpurg’s fugue in Es major, is a three part fugue that shows once again that Marpurg new how to write a fugue. After the first exposition, Marpurg plays mostly with the first half of...
Christian Gottlob Höpner (1799 – 1859) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Frankenberg and he largely taught himself how to play to piano and the organ. When it turned out...
