Allein Gott in der Höh sei Her SwWV 299

Chorale variations for organ (collaboration with other composers).
Since I have lived 10 years in Amsterdam in the same street as Sweelinck (Koestraat), on only some hundreds yards from the Oude Kerk where he was organist, I find it appropriate on his 450-st birth year to perform one of his works. Though in our own time he is known as a composer of keyboard music, seventeenth century Europeans saw J.P. Sweelinck pre-eminently as a teacher. He taught nearly all of the organists who would eventually be known as the North German Organ School, the lineage of which eventually would lead to Bach. His pupils from Hamburg were so prominent that Sweelinck -- who never went to Hamburg -- was called the "Hamburgischen Organistenmacher" (maker of Hamburg organists) despite the fact that he never entered the the Hanseatic city. Among those who flocked from Germany to Amsterdam to learn music from Sweelinck were Andreas Düben (in 1606-1609), Samuel Scheidt (around 1608-1609), and Peter Hasse (1614-1620). This remarkable set of chorale variations for organ survives with contributions by all four composers.

Var. 1
RW: R4 O4 H8 P8 Mixt Q3 O2
Ped: F8 Sb 16 P16 Mixt
HW: GH4 R8 O8 O2 Bd16
BW: P8 W2 Bp8 O4 Tr8
I+II II+III P+II

Var. 2
RW: P8 Cornet
HW: Tr8

Var. 3
RW: O4 H8
HW: R8 Q3 O2

Var. 4
RW: O4 H8 Tr8 Tz8 Q3
HW: R8 O2 Tr8 O4
BW: VH8 Fl1 Tr8
I+II II+III

Var. 5
HW: R8 Q3
BW: VH8

Var. 6
RW:Tz8 O4 H8 F2 Mixt O2
Ped: Tr4 O4

Var. 7
RW: Tz8 O4 H8 F2 Mixt O2 Sch
Ped: Tr4 O4 Bz16 P16 Trb8 O8
HW: Fg16 R8 Mixt W2 O2 O4
BW: VH 8 Carl
I+II II+III P+I P+II

Var. 8
RW: Rf4 Q8
Ped: O4
BW: H8 F2

Var 9
RW: P8 Cornet Trem.
HW: O8 O4 Q3 Tr8

Var 10
HW: G4 R8
BW: VH8

Var 11
RW: H8 Q8 Trem.
Ped: O8
BW: VdG8 Trem.

Var 12
RW: Tz8 H8 Q8 Tr8
HW: Tr8 Sq
BW: VH8 VdG8 Tr8
I+II II+III

Var 13
HW: O8 W2
BW: VH8 H8 Trem.

Var 14
RW: R4 O4 H8 P8 F2 Mixt Q8 Q3 O2

Var 15
RW: O4 Trem.
Ped: O4
BW: F2 VdG8 Trem.

Var 16
RW: O4 H8 P8 Tz8 Cornet
BW: G4 O8 O2 Tr8
BW: VH8 F1 VdG8
II+III

Var 17
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