A Trio like chorale prelude. The melody is played in both hands seperately, and then a third time unisono. The recording was done the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradis, of the Transept organ in...
Johannes Ringk (1717 – 1778) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Frankenhain and studied organ with Johann Peter Kellner in Gräfenroda and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel in Gotha. From 1740 he...
The last three Trio’s by Mohrheim are based on chorale melodies. They are not real Trio’s in that it is music for just three voices. This fifth trio is actually a four voice piece....
This choral prelude is the first of two preludes on this melody by Oley, found in Ms 30190. It is subtitled “2 Clav. et Ped”, but I think there is no need in this...
The third prelude by Kauffmann on “Nun kom der heiden Heiland” in Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK). It is a four part fugue, based on the first...
This chorale prelude on “Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit” has the choral melody in the pedal part. The recording was done the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradis, of the Transept organ in...
Mohrheim’s fourth Trio in A dur is the most elongated of his ‘free’ Trio’s. The remaining three are based on chorale melodies. The recording was done with the sampleset, made by Organ Art Media,...
Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK) contains four preludes by Kauffmann on “Nun kom der heiden Heiland”. They could be played all four one after another as a...
Oley’s choral prelude on “Wir Christenleut” is a nice piece in itself. But it seems to me more melancholy than the text of the choral would suggest. The recording was done the sampleset, made...
Mohrheim’s third Trio in g moll is probably the best known of his 7 Trio’s. It is set up as a three voice fugue. The trickiest point in the score is a long trill...
Oley’s choral prelude on “Wie soll ich dich empfangen?” starts promising, but is over before you know it. It’s still a nice piece, but I think Oley could have done more with the basic...
Manuscript Mus.ms. 22541 II (owned by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK) contains 73 preludes based on chorales suitable for the Christmas period. I won’t publish all 73 of them, but some 30 or...
Oley’s choral prelude on “Jesu meine Zuversicht” is a lively piece, in line with the meaning of the text. The recording was done the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradis, of the Transept organ in...
Mohrheim wrote 7 Trio’s for organ. The first was published a few weeks ago. This is the second Trio. The rest will follow in the coming weeks. The recording was done the sampleset, made...
“Ich singe dir mit Herz und Mund” is the 12th choralprelude by Oley, published on this site and transcribed from Mus.ms 30190. The manuscript contains 12 more choral preludes by Oley, so I’m now...
