Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten
This chorale prelude is a relatively simple bicinium. The left hand provides a lively accompaniment to the chorale melody in the right hand. What makes this piece more interesting, is not the music itself, but the curious fact that Johann Christoph Kühnau added a part for the right hand between the stanza’s of the chorale melody and published it as his own work.
The source for this chorale prelude is manuscript Am. B 396, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin.
Kühnau’s version can be found here.
The recording was done on the sample set of the Silbermann organ of the Stadtkirche Zöblitz by Prospectum.
Score
Kirnberger, Johann Philip, Wer nur (1)
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