Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Jesu meine Freude
Marpurg’s prelude to “Jsu meine Freude” is one of the most beautiful pieces of music Marpurg wrote. Perhaps it is even the most beautiful one. The introduction of this prelude is full of longing...
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Georg Andreas Sorge, Nun freut euch lieben Christen g’mein (reconstruction)
After my reconstructions of Sorge’s choral preludes to the chorals “O Herre Gott, dein Göttlich Wort” and “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr” I thought that three times is a charm and I...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt
Marpurg’s prelude to “Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt” is a nice short prelude. It consists of two halves, the second of which is nothing more than an harmonisation of the choral melody. The...
Georg Andreas Sorge, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (reconstruction)
After my (in my opinion) succesful restoration of an incomplete choral prelude by Georg Andreas Sorge (see here and here I wanted to try another one. On the last page of manuscript Go. S....
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Christus der ist mein Leben
Marpurg’s chorale prelude on the choral “Christus der ist mein Leben” consists actualy of two seperate pieces, rolled into one composition. You get, as it were, two preludes for the price of one. The...
Georg Andreas Sorge, O Herre Gott, dein Göttlich Wort (reconstruction)
A few years ago I transcribed a manuscript containing some 20 plus chorale preludes composed by Georg Andreas Sorge. No less than five of them are incomplete, because there are several pages missing from...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, O Ewigkeit, du Freuden Wort
The melody for this choral is the same melody as for the choral “O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort”. And indeed, both texts deal with the same subject, eternity. Where “O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort” focusses on...
Johann Sebastian Bach (?), Was Gott tut das ist wohlgetan (BWV Anh. II 67)
Number 67 of the second appendix to Schmieder’s catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach is still tentatively ascribed to Bach. And even though there are several compositions in this appendice that could be...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718 – 1795) was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. During his life he published two volumes of chorale preludes, which contain his only known composition for the organ....
Rudolf Löw, Fuga g moll
Rudolf Löw’s opus 1 consists of 12 compositions for the pipe orgen. Of these, I have already published 11 (you can find the scores here: https://partitura.org/index.php/low-rudolf/). The 12th and final composition is a fugue...
Anonymus, Psalm 24 (Lynar B7)
Manuscript Ms Lynar B7 (the seventh of the so-called Lübbenauer Orgeltabulaturen) contains 5 anonymous choral preludes/variations to Psalms and one to the choral “Erhalt uns Herr”. They were probably composed by a contemporary or...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Ach was soll ich Sünder machen
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718 – 1795) was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. During his life he published two volumes of chorale preludes, which contain his only known composition for the organ....
Anonymus, Erhalt uns Herr bei deinen Wort (Lynar B7)
Manuscript Ms Lynar B7 (the seventh of the so-called Lübbenauer Orgeltabulaturen) contains 5 anonymous choral preludes/variations to Psalms and one to the choral “Erhalt uns Herr”. They were probably composed by a contemporary or...
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg (1718 – 1795) was a German music critic, music theorist and composer. Little is known of Marpurg’s early life. According to various sources, he studied “philosophy” and music. In 1746, he...
Anonymus, Psalm 100 (Lynar B7)
The Lynar manuscripts were preserved in the holdings of the Duke of Lynar in Lübbenau, and are therefore also known as the Lübbenauer Orgeltabulaturen. The seventh manuscript in the B-series contains 5 anonymous choral...