The title of this composition suggests that it offers the possibility to play it endlessly. And indeed, the manuscript indicates with numbers three points suitable for a repeat or a skip. The numbers “1”...
Seger’s prelude in G major (l 9) features a short introduction of 9 bars that leads to the tonic of G major, after which the actual piece starts in “Alla breve” time. I guess...
Seger’s Fantasia in d minor (L 8) is one of his compositions that is a bit more well known than the compositions I published till today. There are several performances of this composition available...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
