It is now four and a half year ago I started publishing organ scores, typeset from manuscripts sources. Most of the source material available originated in the Baroque area in Germany, so my publishing...
The Anhang II of Schmieder’s catalogue of Bach’s composition contains the spurious works. According to the manuscript sources they were composed by Bach, but there is doubt the authorship is correctly indicated. In the...
The last piece in Kauffmann’s “Harmonische Seelenlust” is actually composed by Johann Gottfried Walther. Kauffmann died before he could complete the entire collection. That’s perhaps the reason why his wife included four works not...
Johann Gottfried Walther wrote several chorale preludes to “Nun komm der Heiden Heiland”. They are all of high quality. The one labeled (by Walther himself) ‘Vers 2’ has the cantus firmus in the pedal....
Of the three preludes on “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” in “Die Harmonische Seelenlust”, only one is written by Kauffmann. The other two were inserted in the collection by Kauffmann’s widow, but...
Walther is of course well known, and as such not really the subject of Partitura Organum. But this piece is too beautiful to ignore. The chorale melody is played in the soprano voice, with...
Walther is of course well known, and as such not really the subject of Partitura Organum. But this piece is too beautiful and fits the time of year too well to ignore. It is...
