Praeludium & Fuge D-moll

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.

I recorded a fine prelude and fugue in D minor by Walther. Especially the beginning reminds me a bit of a North German baroque prelude in the stylus phantastic. As always with Walther's pieces I don't strictly follow the ornamentation suggestions, some I leave out and some I add.