Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir

Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was also his cousin. He has written mostly organ works; many chorale preludes, variations, concerti, toccatas, preludes, fugues etc.

This chorale prelude is on the German hymn 'Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir'. The hymn tune is also known as the 'Old Hundredth' or (from the Geneven Psalter) Psalm 134. Every hymn line first appears in the soprano, then in the bass (pedal). In this recording the reeds of the Heilig Geist organ of Ottobeuren dominate, using the Cromorn on the manual and the Fagot in the pedals.