{"id":9873,"date":"2021-05-24T19:52:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partitura.org\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2021-10-11T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:19:24","slug":"christian-gotthilf-tag-meinem-jesum-lass-ich-nicht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/christian-gotthilf-tag-meinem-jesum-lass-ich-nicht\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Gotthilf Tag, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[I published this piece three weeks ago; it was however not yet backed up when I needed to restore the website&#8217;s database this weekend. So, here it is again]<\/p>\n<p>Christian Gotthilf Tag (1735 \u2013 1811) was a German Kantor and composer. Tag was a prolific composer and his music was highly appreciated by his contemporaries. After his death however, his music was mostly forgotten. And that is a pity because it is actually quite nice music.<\/p>\n<p>Since I started my website with newly engraved scores of often forgotten masters of organ music, there were a few composers who&#8217;s music appealed greatly to me. Tag is one of these composers. I&#8217;m glad I encountered two manuscripts with his music, otherwise I would probably never have got to know his music. With publishing these scores I hope that some of my fellow organists will feel the same way about his music. It would be nice if his music were played more often.<\/p>\n<p>Tag&#8217;s prelude to the choral &#8220;Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht&#8221; is rather unusual compared to his choral preludes I&#8217;ve played thus far. It is a manualiter piece and it leans more towards the classicism then towards the Baroque. Nevertheless, Tag wrote an attractive piece that at first hearing does not give the impression of being a choral prelude. The harmonic and melodic outline does however closely follow the choral melody. Again a very nice composition by Christian Gotthilf Tag.<\/p>\n<p>The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Schittger organ in the St. Martini-kerk, Groningen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Score<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/partitura.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pdf_icon.jpg?resize=32%2C32&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"pdf_icon\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><a class=\"count\" href=\"https:\/\/partitura.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tag-Herr-Meinen-Jesum-lass-ich-nicht.pdf\" data-kccpid=\"9873\">Tag, Herr, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKpLyaA0HVY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Views: 18<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I published this piece three weeks ago; it was however not yet backed up when I needed to restore the website&#8217;s database this weekend. So, here it is again] Christian Gotthilf Tag (1735 \u2013 1811) was a German Kantor and composer. Tag was a prolific composer and his music was highly appreciated by his contemporaries. After his death however, his music was mostly forgotten. And that is a pity because it is actually quite nice music. Since I started my website with newly engraved scores of often forgotten masters of organ music, there were a few composers who&#8217;s music appealed greatly to me. Tag is one of these composers. I&#8217;m glad I encountered two manuscripts with his music, otherwise I would probably never have got to know his music. With publishing these scores I hope that some of my fellow organists will feel the same way about his music. It would be nice if his music were played more often. Tag&#8217;s prelude to the choral &#8220;Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht&#8221; is rather unusual compared to his choral preludes I&#8217;ve played thus far. It is a manualiter piece and it leans more towards the classicism then towards the Baroque. Nevertheless, Tag wrote an attractive piece that at first hearing does not give the impression of being a choral prelude. The harmonic and melodic outline does however closely follow the choral melody. Again a very nice composition by Christian Gotthilf Tag. The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Schittger organ in the St. Martini-kerk, Groningen Score Tag, Herr, Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht Performance Views: 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scores","category-tag-christian-gotthilf","genre-choral-prelude","genre-meinen-jesum-lass-ich-nicht"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/partitura.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tag-Meinen-Jesum-lass-ich-nicht.png?fit=858%2C547&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5LnuZ-2zf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partitura.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}