The chorale prelude Was Gott tut dass ist wohlgetan can found in manuscript Mus.1-U-514, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It is just over a minute long, so it’s one of the shortest chorale...
The chorale prelude Nun freut euch, Gottes Kinder (found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) has the same registration as Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott: Fagott 16′, Quintadeen 8′...
The chorale prelude Komm heiliger Geist, Herre Gott was transcribed from from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The recording was done on the sample set of the Silbermann organ...
Johann Tobias Krebs (1690-1762) was a German baroque composer and organist. He studied with both Johann Gottfried Walter and with Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1710 he was appointed Kantor and organist at Buttelstedt, near...
Another of the chorales preludes by Telemann to be found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It is a bicinium and though it may look simple, it is not....
Another one of the Telemann chorale preludes to be found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. A somewhat dark prelude for a festive occasion. The recording was done on...
This is the second Choral prelude on “Christ lag in Todesbanden” to be found in manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The recording was done on the sample set of...
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually settled on a career in...
Dietrich [Diderik Hansen] Buxtehude (1637/39 – 1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer. For the last forty years of his life he worked in Lübeck, where he was organist at the large Mariairche. Buxtehude...
Again a charming little piece of an allmost unknown composer. Though the piece is small, the composer asks for three manuals. A nice echo play in slow moving lines. Great to show of some...
Johann Nikolaus Hanff (1663–1711) was a North German organist and composer. Little is known about his early life. Till 1696 he lived in Hamburg where he was a music teacher. By his own saying,...
Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722) was a German composer and, later in life, Thomaskantor in Leipzig. He studied music in Dresden with Kittel (Caspar) and Krüger. He came to Leipzig in 1682 where he succeeded Kühnel...
This choral prelude is transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The dorian sixth in the first bar is perhaps a bit uncomfortable to our ‘modern’ ears, but was of...
This choral prelude is transcribed from manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 III, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. The recording was done on the sample set of the Silbermann organ of the Stadtkirche Zöblitz by Prospectum. Score...
This Choral prelude on “Jesus Christus unser Heiland, der den Tod uberwand” is transcribed from a manuscript (Mus.ms. 22541 III) owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The choral melody is in the bass line,...
