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German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Thuringia in 1685. Born into a large musical family, he was the youngest child of string player Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. His parents died when he was ten, and he was cared for by his eldest brother until he won a choral scholarship to the school at Michaelskirche, Lüneburg in 1700. This appears to have influenced his interest in church music and the organ. In August 1703 he was appointed as the organist for the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt, although his eccentricities gave his employers some cause for complaint. In June 1707 Bach moved to the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, marrying his cousin, Maria Barbara, in October that same year. During this time he produced several church cantatas.
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J. S. Bach Organ Works. Book 18. Miscellanous Chorale Preludes (Part I), with an introduction by Ernest Newman.
Published by Novello, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent.
Contents:
- Ach, Gott und Herr
- Ach, Gott und Herr
- Ach, Gott und Herr (Canon)
- Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr'
- Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' (Bicinium)
- Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' (Fugue)
- Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' (Cantus firmus im Sopran)
- An Wasserflüssen Babylon
- Christ lag in Todesbanden (Fantasia)
- Christ lag in Todesbanden
- Christum wir sollen loben schon (Was fürcht'st du, Feind Herodes, sehr) (Fughetta)
- Der Tag der ist so freudenreich
- Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt (Fugue)
- Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott
- Erbarm' dich mein, O Herre Gott
- Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
- Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (Fughetta)
- Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
- Gottes Sohn ist kommen (Fughetta)
- Gottes Sohn ist kommen
- Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes Sohn (Fughetta)
- Herr Gott! dich loben wir
- Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend'
- Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend'
- Herzlich thut mich verlangen
- Ich hab' mein Sach' Gott heimgestellt
- Ich hab' mein Sach' Gott heimgestellt
- In dich hab' ich gehoffet, Herr (Fughetta)
- In dulci jubilo
- Jesu, meine Freude
- Jesus meine Zuversicht
- Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
- Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
- Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
- Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott (Fughetta)
- Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich
- Magnificat (Fugato)
- Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein (Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit)
- Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland (Fughetta)
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The score contains pencil markings by Peter Hurford.