Muffat/Ebner: Complete Works for Keyboard (Organ) - Volume 1

Description

That the clavier music of a composer of Muffat's stature should remain unpublished, apart from three pieces, is a mystery of musical scholarship. Muffat was, after all, a precursor of Johann Sebastian Bach on a par with Buxtehude, Pachelbel and the Krieger brothers. This edition contains the previously unpublished works in Codex Xiv 743 from thin in E Minorite Abbey in Vienna, as well as the three harpsichord pieces from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus that have already appeared in print.

Ebner was an organist and then was chapel-master at St. Stephens in Vienna at the same time as Johann Jacob Froberger. Later he became the teacher of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I. A master of strict counterpoint, his music surpassed even Frobergers in virtuosity.

Contents:

Georg Muffat, Works of certain authenticity, part 1:

Partita in C Major

Fragment Gique in G Major

Partita in D Minor

Fragment Partita in D Minor

George Muffat, works of uncertain authenticity, part 1:

Partita in C Major

Wolfgang Ebner, Works of certain authenticity, part 1:

Toccata Tertij Toni in A Minor

Capriccio Sopra L'aria Pergamasco in G Major

Partite Sopra L'Aria Favorita 20 in G Major

Wofgang Ebner, works of uncertain authenticity, part 1:

56 Versets in the eight Church Modes