František Xaver Brixi, Fuga, c moll (L 14)
All compositions contained in manuscript Becker III.8.63, held by the Städtische Bibliotheken Leipzig, are in the manuscript all ascribed to Seger.…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga C Dur (L 16b)
The numbering of this fugue and the preceding prelude in manuscript Becker III.8.63 (16a and 16b) suggests they belong together and should be played…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga C Dur (L 7)
Seger's Fuga in C major could be combines with the preceding Prelude (L 6) to create the idiomatic combination of "Prelude and fugue". It's almost…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga con soggetto doppio (L 2)
A few days ago I started a new series with compositions by Fuga con seggetto doppio (see here. Today follows the second composition in this seris, a…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga D Dur (L 4)
It is tempting to arrange Seger's many preludes and fugues in the classical combination of "Prelude and Fugue". This fugue in D major follows in the…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Fuga, C Dur (L 11)
Playing a composition by Seger brings the question whether or not to play it with the pedals or without. The pedal board of Seger's organ in the Týn…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Mobile Perpetum (L 10)
The title of this composition suggests that it offers the possibility to play it endlessly. And indeed, the manuscript indicates with numbers three…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Phantasia, d moll (L 8)
Seger's Fantasia in d minor (L 8) is one of his compositions that is a bit more well known than the compositions I published till today. There are…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum (L 1)
Today I start a new series, with music taken from manuscript Becker III.8.63, owned by the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum (L 5)
The prelude in C major, L 5, is a bit intruiging. The first two bars are identiacal to the beginning of the prelude in C major, L 16a, from the same…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum C Dur (L 6)
Seger's Præambulum in C Dur (L 6) is the second prelude of many in manuscript Becker III.8.63 that feature some form in introduction in long static…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præambulum D Dur (L 3)
The third composition from manuscript Becker III.8.63, a prelude in D major, gives rise to another question concerning the organ music of Josef…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Prælude C Dur (L 16a)
Seger's prælude in C Dur, L 16a, is closely related to his Præambulum in C Dur, L 5. Both preludes have the same two bars as the main musical…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Prælude, B Dur (L 13)
Seger's prelude in B flat major (L 13) is very similar to the prelude of the same tonality that precedes it in the manuscript (L 12). This prelude…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præludium Es Dur (L 17)
The next compositin from manuscript Becker III.8.63 is a prelude in E flat major. I sometimes wonder how close the versions in manuscript Becker…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Præludium, G Dur (L 9)
Seger's prelude in G major (l 9) features a short introduction of 9 bars that leads to the tonic of G major, after which the actual piece starts in…
Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Transitus per omnes tonos (L 15)
The fifteenth composition from manuscript ecker III.8.63, held at the Städtische Bibliotheken Leipzig is a rather ambitious one. Called "Transitus…