Johann Balthasar Kehl, Herzlich tut mich verlangen
This melody is one of the most famous and most used of the Lutheran church. It is for example also used for “Wie soll ich dich empfangen”, “Ach Herr mich arme Sünder”, “O haupt...
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Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Ach Herr mich arme Sünder
This melody is one of the most famous and most used of the Lutheran church. It is for example also used for “Wie soll ich dich empfangen”, “Ach Herr mich arme Sünder”, “O haupt...
Christian Heinrich Rinck, Trio C dur, op. 20 nr 1
This is the second score Benjamin Intartaglia contributes to this site. Rinck’s C major Trio from his opus 20 is a lovely Trio. If you like the score, visit Benjamin’s website and drop him...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Herr Jesu Christ mein’s Lebens Licht
Kauffman’s is perhaps best remembered nowadays as author of “Die Harmonische Seelenlust”, a complete edition of his organ chorales. He started publishing this work in 1733 in sequential volumes. However, he died of tuberculosis...
Carl F. Scheidemantel (?)/Friedrich Christian Samuel Mohrheim (?), Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
[update 05-12-2021: Friedrich Christian Samuel Mohrheim is a possibile candidate for the authorship; see Richard Reichel’s comment below] The choral prelude I post today is a sort of left over from Christmas diner. The...
Christian Heinrich Rinck, Trio f moll, opus 20 nr 12
A few months ago I posted three Trio’s from Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770 – 1846) (here, here and here). The source for these three Trio’s (“The Modern School for the Organ” (Boston, Massachusetts: 1860)...
Heinrich Michael Keller, Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
Not much is known about Heinrich Michael Keller. He lived from 1638 till 1710 and was organist in Frankenhausen. One chorale prelude by his hand survives because Johann Gottfried Walther included it in one...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’zugleich
The second prelude by Kauffmann on “Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’zugleich” is a much shorter work than the one I published almost two months ago. It is a short fugue on the first phrase...
Dietrich Buxtehude, Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’zugleich, BuxWV 202
Buxtehude’s prelude on “Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’zugleich” is rather short. Almost as if Buxtehude was in a hurry and had no time to create something more elaborate. Yet Buxtehude has a small surprise...
Georg Böhm, Christum wir sollen loben schon
A beautiful, intense prelude to the old Lutheran Christmas hymn “Christum wir sollen loben schon”. The recording was done on the sample set of the Müller-organ in the Sint Bavokerk in Haarlem by Voxus...
Johann Peter Kellner, Präludium und Fuge, C dur
Another pleasant Prelude and Fugue by Johann Peter Kellner. Since it has no pedal part it can be played on harpsichord as well as on organ. The fugue is one of the better fugues...
Simon Lohet, Surviving organ works
Simon Lohet (Loxhay) (c. 1550 – 1611) was a Flemish composer, possibly born in Maastricht. All of Lohet’s known works are contained in Johann Woltz’s Nova musices organicae tabulatura (Basel, 1617). The bulk of...
Johann Heuschkel, Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt
One of the few surviving works of Johann Heuschkell. It has the familiar form of a fugue on the first phrase of the chorale melody. Though relatively simple, the quality is undeniable, and makes...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
Kauffmann’s prelude on “Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ” is a bicinium. The registration Kauffmann prescribes that the left hand should probably be played an octave higher. I choose to mimic Kauffmann’s registration on a...
Georg Böhm, Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
The prelude by Beorg Böhm on “Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ” shares a lot of simlarities with the prelude by Buxtehude on the same choral melody. For example the rapid notes in the pedal...