 | Bach, Johann Sebastian - Prelude: "Christum wir sollen loben schon" for Woodwind Quartet BWV 611 Flute, Oboe, English Horn & Bassoon |
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| Composer : | Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Flute, Oboe, English Horn & Bassoon1 other version | ||||
| Style : | Baroque | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 24 Jul 2022 The Orgelbüchlein ("Little Organ Book") BWV 599-644 is a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach. All but three of them were composed during the period 1708–1717, while Bach was court organist at the ducal court in Weimar. The remaining three, along with a short two-bar fragment, were added in 1726 or later, after Bach's appointment as cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. The collection was originally planned as a set of 164 chorale preludes spanning the whole liturgical year. The chorale preludes form the first of Bach's masterpieces for organ with a mature compositional style in marked contrast to his previous compositions for the instrument. Although each of them takes a known Lutheran chorale and adds a motivic accompaniment, Bach explored a wide diversity of forms in the Orgelbüchlein. Many of the chorale preludes are short and in four parts, requiring only a single keyboard and pedal, with an unadorned cantus firmus. Others involve two keyboards and pedal: these include several canons, four ornamental four-part preludes, with elaborately decorated chorale lines, and a single chorale prelude in trio sonata form. The Orgelbüchlein has a four-fold purpose: it is a collection of organ music for church services, a treatise on composition, a religious statement, and an organ-playing manual. The preludes later in the Weimar period (BWV 611, 615, 620a, 623, 624 & 633-34) as a stylist entity are far removed from the relatively simple melody chorales of the early group. In the Christmas Choral BWV 611: "Christum wir sollen loben schon" (We should indeed praise Christ), the choral tune is stated by the alto alone, making it the only work in which the cantus firmus is assigned exclusively to a voice other than the soprano. In the original organ prelude, the pedal is assigned a relatively independent pedal part, which cadences with the alto cantus firmus only in the first phrase; the unusually wide spacing between voices and the thickening of texture toward the end from four to five voices by means of a double pedal (the only use of this technique in the entire collection). Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgelb%C3%BCchlein). Although originally created for Organ, I created this Interpretation of Choral Prelude (BWV 611) "Christum wir sollen loben schon" (We should indeed praise Christ) for Woodwind Quartet (Flute, Oboe, English Horn & Bassoon). Sheet central : | Das Orgel-Büchlein (170 sheet music) | | |||
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