Repertorium Orgelmusik
Repertorium Orgelmusik is a bio-bibliography compiled by Klaus Beckmann. It serves as a compilation of all organ music ever written, sorted by country and date of birth. The most recent edition was published in 2001.
Contents
Repertorium Orgelmusik is divided into two volumes. The first volume is dedicated to solo organ music, and the second is for organ music with other instruments.
The composers are sorted by country and date of birth. The reasoning for this is given in the preface...it contextualizes the composer to their time period. An index by last name is also given at the end of the volume for easier lookups.
Each composer's index includes basic biographical information including date of birth, information about their education and who they were a student of, and where they were organist. Following this is a chronological listing of works. When possible is also listed where the piece is published (including modern publications for early organ music).
A few notable manuscripts are included in the index, sorted according to the approximate year of writing.
Notes
Some musicological findings regarding attributions of works have resulted in changes in the listings of Repertorium Orgelmusik. For example, the pieces in D-B Ms. Lynar b 3 which are written by a certain M. W. C. B. M. are listed under Wilhelm Karges based on the attribution by Max Seiffert[1]. Another example of this is that two chorale fantasias in the Pelplin Tablatures where the name Heinrich Scheidemann is written as the composer are written under Franz Tunder based on the attribution to this composer by Klaus Beckmann[2][3], which is not universally accepted[4].
For early organ music, the sources from which works are found are not listed (except for whole manuscripts which are listed in the index).
Some composers could not have their date of birth and/or death confirmed before publishing and are left blank (this does not apply to early composers, whos dates are often given approximately). One notable example of this is Diane Bish, whos date of birth is given as "*19...".
References
Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek. (vol. 1, vol. 2) Accessed 19 July, 2023.
- ↑ See M. W. C. B. M. on this wiki.
- ↑ Beckmann, Klaus (editor). Zwei Choralfantasien: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ ; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [Franz Tunder]. Wiesbaden: Breitkops & Härtel, 1991.
- ↑ Schumacher, Claudia (editor). Franz Tunder: Sämtliche Orgelwerke. Mainz: Schott, 2022. Introduction.
- ↑ Dirksen, Pieter. Heinrich Scheidemann's Keyboard Music: Transmission, Style and Chronology. London: Taylor & Francis, 2017. 58 (footnote 33).
