Manuscript Am.B. 340, available as digital copy at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, was presumably written by Wilhelm Karges (1614 – 1699). The composers in this manuscript are sometimes given with there initials, but most...
The next choral prelude by Marpurg’s hand is the prelude to the choral “Gott des Himmels and der Erden” (in English also known as “Good, who madest earth and heaven”). I completed recording all...
A few days ago I stumbled upon a tanscription of Bach’s Agnus Dei, from his Hohe Messe (BWV 232), for organ. And it was actually quite a bad transcription, in my opinion, that did...
Marpurg’s prelude to “Wenn Christus seine Kriche schützt” has the choral melody in the pedals. It has a march-like rythm, a playing indication “Heroic” and together with the melody in the pedals that begs...
Wilhelm Karges (1613 or 1614 – 1699), was a German organist and composer in the North German organ tradition. He was born in Berlin, where he spent much of his life. In January 1646...
The first part of Kreb’s Klavier Übung was published in 1744 and consists of 13 works based on one choral melody. Each of these works consists of a preambulum, a chorale setting, and a...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 (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....
