The original source of this piece in manuscript Am B 340 is a Fantasia in D Dorian by Johann Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The original fantasia is some 12 minutes long. Karges boils it down to...
Kittel’s fifth fugue is a three voice fugue with a chromatic theme. The the appears some 13 times in just 48 bars, two times in a row in one voice and once in stretto....
Kaufmann wrote three choral preludes to “Vater unser im Himmelreich”. The first is a powerfull 4-voice fugue on the first phrase of the chorale melody. Kauffmann shows he knew his counterpoint. The theme enters...
Not a suitable chorale to celebrate the day, just a playful, merry fugue. Two voice fugues are perhaps the most difficult to write, and the most difficult to play. Every little detail in the...
Bach’s authorship of the this choral prelude to “Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund” is doubted. It doesn’t even appear in the annex (Anhang) to the BWV-catalogue of Bach’s works. It does however appear...
In the years around 1770 a little tradition developed in Berlin to compose and publish small collections of manual fugues, that could either be played on the organ or on the harpsichord. Examples of...
Update, 27 december 2018: This fugue turns out to have been composed by Johann Jacob Froberger. The letters “F.S.” are either an misattribution, they stand for something like “Froberger Scripsit” (Froberger has written), or...
In the years around 1770 a little tradition developed in Berlin to compose and publish small collections of manual fugues, that could either be played on the organ or on the harpsichord. Examples of...
Manuscript Mus ms Bach P287, owned by the Staatbibliothek zu Berlin, contains 6 keyboard fugues by Johann Christian Kittel. They are amongst the first works I transcribed, back in 2014, practising my engraving software...
This is the fifth prelude in which Kauffmann employs the oboe to play the choral melody. The organ plays an elegant trio to accompany the oboe. Kauffann is not only the inventor of the...
Manuscript Am B 340 contains three pieces that are generally believed to be composed by Karges himself. These are a Fantasia, Capriccio (though Karges composed only the first half) and a Præludium . The...
Johann Michael Bach’s prelude to “Der du bist drei in Einigkeit” is a well written four part piece. The tonal development is a bit strange. The piece start with a G major chord and...
Kauffmann’s prelude to “Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, O Herr” is a trio with the choral melody in the pedals. As always when Kauffmann uses a ternary rhythm the result is an outstanding piece....
Manuscript Am B 340 contains two fugues, that have the initials “F.S” written beneath the title. Presumably those are the initials of the original composer of this fugue. Alas, I have no idea who...
The source for this publication is a handwritten copy by August Wilhelm Bach of 6 preludes and fugues composed by Ernst Friedrich Richter. Though only one of the others has an opus number, this...
