Prelude and Capriccio in d minor

Johann Heinrich Buttstett (1666-1727) was born in Bindersleben. In 1691 Buttstett succeeded Nicolaus Vetter at the Predigerkirche; he remained there until his death 36 years later. Buttstett's surviving consists exclusively of keyboard music, which he apparently composed in great numbers. In the only surviving collection, "Musicalische Clavier-Kunst und Vorraths-Kammer" of 1713. Particularly interesting are the Prelude and Capriccio in d minor of the Musicalische Clavier-Kunst: the prelude begins with a long single-voice monophonic passage filled with pauses, single note exclamations and virtuosic figures very similar to Toccata in d minor BWV 565, and the Capriccio is fugal, building on a similarly complex subject written out in 32nd- and 16th-notes and related to the prelude. The Prelude and Capriccio it can be taken for granted that the composer intended a performance by pairs since the finishing of the Capriccio is borrowed from the Prelude whereby a superordinate combination is established.

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