Talk:Orgelbüchlein

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The old text (most of which is commented in the source) featured misguided information and titles in French… don't understand that, since the collection is written in German by a German composer. Furthermore, the former text compared the Orgelbüchlein with cyclical works such as the St. Matthew Passion… this is not the case; the Orgelbüchlein is simply a collection of chorale preludes. The reason it seems that they are composed in four cycles is that the preludes span the church year. The collection was not designed to be performed all at once, as were the truly cyclical works. I'll add more to this article shortly, but currently it is more accurate than it was before. Cor anglais 16 20:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Bach wrote many sets of Chorale preludes of organ; including the Achtzehn, Einzelne and Kirnberger chorale works.

Orgelbüchlein consists of 4 cycles, or larger movements. The use of cycles are quite common in Bach's secular (religious, as oppose to instrumental) works, for example the St Matthew Passion (Bach) consists of 2 parts. The first cycle is the 'Cycle de Noël' and consists of 19 preludes, the second 'Cycle de Pâques' and consists of the subsequent 13 preludes, the third 'Cycle de Pentecôte' consists of 3 preludes, and the final cycle 'Glaubensleider' consists of the final 10 preludes. Each prelude is given a name (Eg: The first prelude in the 'Cycle of Noël' is 'Viens, maintenant, Sauveur des païens' or 'Come now, Saviour of the heathen'), probably synonymous with Bach's own faith in the Lutherian (Martin Luther) church.

This is the old text referred to above. I have removed it from the source and placed it here. —Cor anglais 16 (Talk) 03:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holy Week/Lent

I changed the heading for the Lenten chorales from

Seven for each day of the Holy Week

to

Seven for Lent

because Bach did not intend to write only seven Lenten chorale preludes, one for each day of Holy Week. This is evidenced by the fact that he did not complete planned chorale preludes for Lenten chorales such as "O Traurigkeit," "Herzliebster Jesu," and four others. —Cor anglais 16 (Talk) 06:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I'll fix List of compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach too, then. Jashiin 07:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Editions"

Okay, so, there's a title for a section which might be quite interesting (I would outline the differences between the presentation of the buchlein in the three major editions: i.e. Novello prints each one preceded by it's Chorale harmonised in the style of Bach [if not by JSB himself], Barenreiter publishes the tunes at the front, in the hymnbook style, and the prelude style, and God knows what Peters does).

BUT

No one's written anything!iPhil 20:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)