Nicolaus Bruhns

Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697)

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All known organ works listed according to edition by Klaus Beckmann (ED 9785). Fragment of Preludium in G Major from Möllerschen Handschrift is also included, as well as an ornamented copy of "Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland" by J. F. Agricola
-William Rehwinkel, Feb 21, 2022

-William Rehwinkel, May 9, 2022

Cantatas are from Nicolaus Bruhns: Gesammelte Werke, ed. Fritz Stein. Braunschweig: Henry Litolff, 1937. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik I-II.
-WR, Nov 10, 2022

Works

The first page of the Prelude in E Minor by Nicolaus Bruhns

The organ works by Bruhns survive in the following sources:

• The Möller Manuscript, which contains the Preludium in E Minor, copied by Johann Christoph Bach (as well as a fragment of the Preludium in G Major).
• The Schmahl Organ Tablatures (and a 19th-century copy of it), containing the Prelude in E Minor.
• A collection of four manuscripts which are all descendants of a fifth, B-Bc 26659 written by Johann Friedrich Agricola. Each manuscript contains the Preludium in G Major and a version of Nun komm der Heiden Heiland with more ornamentation inserted by Agricola.
  • An ostensibly more original copy of Nun komm der Heiden Heiland is found in the Johann Gottfried Walther manuscript D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 802.
• D-B Mus.ms. 30381, including a Preludium in G Minor by Mons: Prunth.
• DK-Kk mu 7503.0234, which includes a fragment of another preludium.

Surviving organ works by Nicolaus Bruhns

Source(s)	Title	Incipit
Möller Manuscript f.97v-100r	Praeludium in E Minor, Groß
Schmahl Organ Tablatures D-B Mus.ms. 30147 p.25-29	Praeludium in E Minor, Kleine
Möller Manuscript f.54v B-Bc 26659 f.25r-27v D-B Mus.ms. 2683 f.26v-29v D-B Am.B 462 p.56-63 D-B Am.B 430 p.56-63 D-B Mus.ms. 2681/1 f.28v-32r	Praeludium in G Major
DK-Kk mu 7503.0234 f.8v-9r	Adagio in D Major (Frag.)
D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 802 p.162-175 Ornamented: B-Bc 26659 f.28r-30r D-B Mus.ms. 2683 f.30r-35r D-B Am.B 462 p.64-75 D-B Am.B 430 p.64-75 D-B Mus.ms. 2681/1 f.32v-38v	Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland

In 2006, the Prelude in G Minor which had previously been attributed to Bruhns was found to have been similarities with Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst by Dietrich Kollmannsperger (see Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst#Prelude in G Minor).

Editions

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Note: "Three praeludiua" does not include the Prelude in G Minor.

Listed in Chronological order:

• Alexandre Guilmant, editor. Choral: Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland. Ecole Classique de L'orgue. Paris: Durand, 1900.

(Ornamented)

• Max Seiffert, editor. Organum IV vol. 8. Leipzig, Kistner & Siegel, undated

Contains three Praeludia only.

• Fritz Stein, editor. Nicolaus Bruhns: Gesammelte Werke. Erbe deutscher Musik. Zweite Reihe, Landschaftsdenkmale. Schleswig-Holstein und Hansestädte; vol. 1-2. Braunschweig: H. Litolff, 1939.

Contains three Praeludia and Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland (ornamented).

• Klaus Beckmann, editor. Nikolaus Bruhns: Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1972.

• Michael Radulescu, editor. Nicolaus Bruhns: Orgelwerke. Wien: Doblinger, 1993.

• Harald Vogel, editor. Bruhns: Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 2008.

• Klaus Beckmann, editor. N. Bruhns/A. M. Brunckhorst: Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Meister der Norddeutschen Orgelschule 13. Mainz: Schott.

References

See notes