Organ - easy to
intermediate
SKU:
HL.49019879
Chorale Settings/Free
Organ Works. Composed
by Matthias Weckmann.
Edited by Klaus Beckmann.
This edition:
Paperback/Soft Cover.
Sheet music. Organ
Collection. Softcover.
Schott Music #ED21009-01.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019879).
ISBN
9790001196642. UPC:
888680885854.
12.0x8.75x0.462
inches.
Matthias
Weckmann, born in
Niederdorla near
Muhlhausen (Thuringia) in
1616 and died in Hamburg
in 1674, was trained as a
musician by Heinrich
Schutz in Dresden among
others. He worked as an
organist in Dresden
(Schlosskirche) and
Hamburg (St. Jakobi). It
is particularly for the
Jakobi organ that he
wrote his elaborate and
virtuoso organ works. Our
new edition in the
renowned series 'Masters
of the North German Organ
School' faithfully
transfers the works which
survived in letter
tablature, providing a
reliably edited urtext.
Volume 1 contains the
cantus firmus-based
works, 8 authentic verse
cycles with 2-7 movements
each in which chorale
melodies such as 'Es ist
das Heil uns kommen her',
'Gelobet seist du, Jesu
Christ)' or the
'Magnificat' are varied,
as well as a cycle on
'Ach wir armen Sunder'
attributed to Weckmann.
Volume 2 proves him to a
master of concertante
organ music, containing 3
works with pedal
(Fantasia, Fuga and
Praeambulum in D) as well
as several moderately
difficult works to be
played on manuals only (6
toccatas, 5 canzonas).
Reliable standard edition
of the music by one of
the great (North) German
organ masters.
matthias-weckmann
