Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Fuga D Dur, à 2 voci
Marpurg’s fugue in D major, written for two voices, is an up tempo, spiritied composition. “Fugue” is probably not the most accurate description of this piece. The fugue theme appear a few times at...
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Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga, D Dur (L 4)
It is tempting to arrange Seger’s many preludes and fugues in the classical combination of “Prelude and Fugue”. This fugue in D major follows in the manuscript source immediately after the prelude of the...
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum (L 5)
The prelude in C major, L 5, is a bit intruiging. The first two bars are identiacal to the beginning of the prelude in C major, L 16a, from the same manuscript. After those...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia Echo
The next composition from manuscript AM.B. 340 is again an echo fantasia. It is either an original composition by Karges, or an adaptation of a composition by an unknown composer. Either way, it consists...
Johann Balthasar Kehl, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht
Kehl’s second full swing pedaliter chorale prelude, is the prelude to “Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht”. And Kehl makes it the composition quite difficult to play, as it features some tricky trills in the...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Capriccio in F Dur
The next compositions from Marpurg’s Fughe e Capricci per clavicembalo o per l’organo, after the Fuga a 3 voci in D major, is the Capriccio in F major. Marpurgs Capricci are mostly a sort...
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum, D Dur (L 3)
The third composition from manuscript Becker III.8.63, a prelude in D major, gives rise to another question concerning the organ music of Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger. This prelude is one of a lot of...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia 2 after Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s Fantasia Chromatica
Karges based at least two fantasia’s in the manuscript on Sweelink’s original Fantasia Chromatica. I say “at least” because there are two short fragments inserted in the manuscript that are probably based on the...
Johann Balthasar Kehl, Was mein Gott will, das gescheh allzeit
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’...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Fuga in D Dur à 3 voci
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...
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga con soggetto doppio (L 2)
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...
Wilhelm Karges, Fantasia 1 after Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s Fantasia Chromatica
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...
Johann Balthasar Kehl, Liebster Jesu wir sind hier
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...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Fuga in A Dur à 3 voci
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...
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum (L 1)
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...