Silva Manfrè - Murschhauser - Prototypon Longo-Breve Organicum (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Franz Xaver Murschhauser was born in the summer of 1663. In 1676 Murschhauser joined the choir and orchestra of St Peter’s, where he benefited first from the tuition he received from the church’s choir director Sigmund Auer and later, from 1684 to 1693, from the Court Kapellmeister Johann Kaspar Kerll, which left a lasting impression on him.

In July 1690, most probably on the recommendation of his teacher Johann Kaspar Kerll, Murschhauser was asked to stand in for the choirmaster of the Munich Frauenkirche, Ludwig Hölz, who was indisposed owing to illness. After the latter’s death in 1691, Murschhauser became his successor, holding the position for the remainder of his life.
The Prototypon Longo-Breve Organicum (which might be translated as ‘Prototypes for organ pieces, long and short’) was published in two parts in Nuremberg in 1703 and 1707 and contains eight cycles/sections totalling 46compositions, comprising varying numbers of intonations, praeambulae, fugues, canzonas, toccatas and finales designed as preludes or postludes to figural music. In 20 of the more extensive numbers, Murschhauser indicates cuts as an aid for organists in liturgical use, if needed. It is precisely these sorts of adaptations of the musical material offered by the composer himself to suit the time available in liturgical performance that make the Prototypon such a practical and relevant work, right down to our own times.

The intonations are made up of figures, broken chords and passages over a pedal point, deliberately kept free of any imitative interplay.
The praeambulae consist either of motivic figurations with imitative passages and pedal points somewhat reminiscent of the style of Johann Pachelbel, or they are more akin to the old Italian toccata in their alternation of chord successions and scales. By contrast, the two toccate arpeggiate, with their full-voiced chordal writing and harmonic richness, point to the Overture in the French style which, at this time, was finding its way into southern German music primarily through the work of Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer.

TRACKLIST

1. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: I. Intonatio primi toni
2. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: II. Praeambulum primi toni
3. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: III. Fuga prima primi toni
4. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: IV. Fuga secunda primi toni
5. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: V. Fuga finalis primi toni
6. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: VI. Praeambulum primi toni
7. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: VII. Praeambulum secundi toni
8. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: VIII. Fuga secundi toni
9. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: IX. Praeambulum aliud secundi toni
10. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: X. Fuga alia secundi toni
11. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XI. Fuga secundi toni
12. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XII. Arpeggiata overo toccata secundi toni
13. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XIII. Praeambulum tertii toni
14. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XIV. Fuga tertii toni
15. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XV. Fuga brevissima tertii toni
16. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XVI. Praeambulum tertii toni
17. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XVII. Praeambulum brevissimum tertii toni
18. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XVIII. Fuga tertii toni
19. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XIX. Finale septimi toni
20. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XX. Fuga prima septimi toni
21. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XXI. Praeambulum septimi toni
22. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars prima: XXII. Fuga secunda septimi toni
23. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: I. Intonatio octavi toni cum, pedali ad libitum
24. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: II. Praeambulum octavi toni
25. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: III. Fuga prima octavi toni
26. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: IV. Fuga secunda octavi toni
27. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: V. Toccata arpeggiata octavi toni
28. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: VI. Praeambulum decimi toni
29. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: VII. Fuga decimi toni
30. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: VIII. Praeambulum decimi toni cum pedali ad libitum
31. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: IX. Fuga decimi toni
32. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: X. Finale decimi toni cum pedali ad libitum
33. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XI. Toccata undecimi toni pro pedali
34. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XII. Fuga brevis undecimi toni
35. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XIII. Fuga sive canzon prima undecimi toni
36. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XIV. Fuga sive canzon secunda undecimi toni
37. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XV. Praeambulum undecimi toni
38. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XVI. Toccata arpeggiata brevis undecimi toni
39. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XVII. Praeambulum duodecimi toni
40. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XVIII. Fuga prima duodecimi toni
41. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XIX. Fuga secunda duodecimi toni
42. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XX. Fuga tertia duodecimi toni
43. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XXI. Fuga quarta duodecimi toni
44. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XXII. Toccata duodecimi toni cum pedali ad libitum
45. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XXIII. Toccata duodecimi toni
46. Silva Manfrè - Prototypon longo-breve organicum, IFM 6, pars secunda: XXIV. Toccata duodecimi toni



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