Fantasia in D, WV 83

Karges includes in his manuscript (AM B 340, owned by the Staatbibliothek Berlin) at least three works composed by Heinrich Scheidemann. One of those three appears without Scheidemann's initials in this manuscript, but is known to be a composition of Scheidemann from others manuscripts. It is not unlikely that ons or more of the other anonymously transmitted compositions in manuscript Am/B/ 340 is by Scheidemann's hand as well, though it is impossible to know for certain.

In his book, "Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music: Transmission, Style and Chronology", Pieter Dirksen writes writes about Am.B 340: "Scheidemann is represented here by three 'fantasias', two of them with his initials (wv 83 and 43a), one anonymous (WV 74). Their text along with their titles [...] is thouroughly unreliable, as a comparison with the tesxs of Toccata wv 43a and the Cantzoenn wv 74 in KN 209 demonstrates. On the other hand, there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the Fantasia (?) in d wv 83, only the version in which it is given here."

From the works I transcribed untill now from this manuscript it is clear that Karges adapted the originals to his need, making them shorter or in a few cases longer, or mixing them with other musical material, sometimes certainly and sometimes possibly from his own hand. As fas as I know this 'fantasia' by Scheidemann appears in no other manuscript, and this version of Karges is the only source there is. How much of this composition is truely by Scheidemann and how much of the original was perhaps cut away is a question that will probably never be answered. If it wasn't for Karges, we would not even have this version.

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