Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
Another go at this choral melody, this time by Kauffmann. It is intruiging how one melody can give rise to so many different pieces. This version is meant to play at two manuals and...
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Johann Heuschkel, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, Vers 2
The second prelude by Heuschkel on “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her” (in the manuscript of Walther designated as “Vers 2”) is a lovely bicinium. The trouble with bicinia is that thay are...
Johann Heuschkel, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, Vers 1
To the few remaining organ works of Johann Heuschkel belong two preludes to the choral “Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her”. They are not as elaborate as the prelude I uploaded a few...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, Vers 2 (LV 50b)
Two preludes by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow are next in line in the series of christmas preludes. In Walther’s manuscript they appear next to each other, labeled Vers 1 and Vers 2. I don’t think...
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, Vers 1 (LV 50a)
Two preludes by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow are next in line in the series of christmas preludes. In Walther’s manuscript they appear next to each other, labeled Vers 1 and Vers 2. I don’t think...
Georg Friedrich Kauffmann, Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’ zugleich
Kauffmann’s prelude on “Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’ zugleich” is a vivid three-part invention. The choral melody is presented in the middle voice, surrounded by two lively outer voices. Curiously, the prelude states the...
Johann Heuschkel, Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’ zugleich
The four manuscripts in which Johann Gottfried Walther notated his own works, along with compositions of contemporaries, contain some works by J.(P.) Heuschkel. This Heuschkel is not the Johann Peter Heuschkel who was the...
Andreas Nicolaus Vetter, Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’ zugleich
A good portion of Vetter’s music was lost during the second World War. Manuscripts containing free organ works were destroyed. The prelude on “Lobt Gott ihr Christen all’ zugleich” gives a glimpse of what...
Johann Adam Hiller (?), Präludium zu Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir
Another piece from the “The Wöchentliche Nachrichten und Anmerkungen die Musik betreffend”, edited by Johann Adam Hiller. No composer is indicated in the original source. So perhaps the piece is written by Hiller himself....
Ernst Friedrich Wolf, Mir nach spricht Christus
Ernst Friedrich Wolf (? – 1772) was a composer and organist who studied under Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. No birthdate is known, at least I could not find one. Ernst Friedrich Wolf was the older...
Johann Adam Hiller (?), Wie nach einer Wasserquelle
That Hiller wrote this piece is just a supposition. I wrote about that a few months ago. But it is nice piece, and the quick flow of sixteenth notes aptly describes the water flowing...
Johann Balthasar Kehl, Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her
I have neglected Kehl somewhat these last months. And there quite a few pieces of him left to publish. So it’s about time to post a new piece by Kehl. The piece presented here...
Simon Lohet, Erbarm dich mein, Herre Gott
Lohet’s composition on the melody of psalm 51 sounds to me like it was originally written for voices. It’s a more simple composition than his composition on the melody of psalm 8. It has...
Choral preludes from Mus. Ms. 30439
Manuscript Mus. Ms. 30439 owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is an interesting manuscript. It contains five different fascicles, some reasonably preserved, others deteriorated to the point of not being readable anymore. The second...
H.W. Tauscher, Fuga (“B-A-C-H”) per il Organo pieno
Two pieces of the mysterious H.W. Tauscher that are worth re-editing appeared in a periodical called “Orgel Journal”, in 1835. One is a choral prelude on “Jesu meine Freude”, the other an intricate 5-voice...