Keyboard pieces (Fugues) by Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) and others

Title

Keyboard pieces (Fugues) by Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) and others

Shelfmark

MS. Mus. c. 105

Summary

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764): Fugues for organ, transcribed from Die wol-klingende Finger-Sprache, in Zwӧlff Fugen, mit zwey biss drey Subjecten, entworffen …, Erster (-Zweyter) Theil (Hamburg, Verlage des Verfassers, 1735, 1737). [RISM 990040092; A/1 M 1401]

Beginning on fol. 3v:

(fols. 3v-4) Fuga 1 in G major.

(fols. 5v-6) Fuga 2 in C minor.

(fols. 7v-8) Fuga 3 in F major.

(fols. 9v-10) Fuga 4 in B flat major.

(fols. 11v-12) Fuga 5 in E flat major.

(fols. 13-14r) [Fugue] in C minor.

(fol. 14v) Fughetta in C minor.

(fols. 15v-16r) [Fugue] in F minor.

(fols. 17v-18v) Sinfonia and Fugue in C major.

(fols. 20v and 19r) Fuga 9 in F major.

(fols. 21v-22r) Fuga [11] in C minor.

(fols. 23v-24r) Fuga [12] in G major.

Added by other hands are:

(a) (fols. 1v-2r) Pergolesi: Fugue in F minor, [preceded by the first 9 bars copied in G minor (crossed through)]

(b) (fols. 2v and 1r) [J. B. Kehl] Choral prelude, 'O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort' in D major.

(c) (fols. 4v and 3) G. F. Handel: Fugue in F minor [Allegro from Suite no. 6, HWV 431/3, transposed from F sharp minor].

(d) (fol. 17r) Piece [toccata?] in F major. [Composer unidentified]

(e) (fols. 19v-20r) [C. H. Graun]: Vivace in F minor (incomplete) ['Freuet euch alle ihr Frommen' from Der Tod Jesu, GraunWV B:VII:2/20].

Date

18th cent.

Language

Italian

Physical facet

Fol., cropped.

Physical extent

24 Leaves