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Samuel Scheidt: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, 2 settings (Görlitzer Tabulatur-Buch)

Justin J. Murphy-Mancini performs two settings of "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" from the Görlitz Tablature by Samuel Scheidt (SSWV 441a-b). In 1650, Samuel Scheidt released his last published collection of pieces, the Görlitzer Tabulatur-Buch. The city of Görlitz supported Scheidt financially in this endeavor with a commission of at least 40 thalers. The collection, published originally in open score, provides working organists with harmonized examples of 100 chorales, a small number of which are given alternate harmonizations. In the preface, Scheidt wrote, "Since I had been urgently asked to carry out this work, I considered it my duty to comply with this request as best I could, and have compose a whole hundred of the most current psalms, sacred songs, and hymns in four voices with basses and inner parts, some of them several times, in such a fashion as has never been accomplished before either by other or by me; I wrote these compositions, as well as some others, many years ago in [Italian organ tablature] form which organists can easily transcribe them into the ordinary [German] tablature and can play and perform them in the church and at home." These settings offer a comprehensive look at Scheidt's contrapuntal mastery at the small scale, in contrast with his monumental Tabulatura Nova a quarter century earlier. The collection can be compared to J.S. Bach's many settings of the same chorales, providing an education in counterpoint and harmony of the mid-17th century. I am recording and releasing all of the chorale settings in the Görlitz Tablature during liturgical year 2025, performed on the Paul Fritts organ at Pacific Lutheran University. The project will be a documentation both of this valuable historical music document and the array of manual stops on this organ, which was inspired by the instruments Scheidt would have known. Setting 1 - Great: 16' Praestant, 8' Octave, 4' Octave Setting 2 - Positive: 8' Praestant To learn more about the organ and organ study at PLU, please visit https://www.plu.edu/organ/. Recorded at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Organ: The Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, Paul Fritts and Co. Op. 18, 1998.