Johann Georg Grobe

Johann Georg Grobe was an organist who lived in the late 17th century. He is most well-known for being the copyist of a manuscript, the Grobe Tablature, which is now lost.

Grobe Tablature

Grobe was the copyist of a manuscript dated 1675. It was written in german tablature and contained works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Wolfgang Carl Briegel, Johann Rudolph Ahle, and Johann Jakob Froberger.

The manuscript came into the possession of a certain Organisten Hildebrand in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. After Hildebrand's death before 1867, the manuscript and other possessions were sold to a local butcher as scrap paper.

In 1838, the manuscript had been copied by Ritter in Madeburg. This manuscript was still in Ritter's possession when it was consulted by Philipp Spitta for his edition of the organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude. Afterwards, this copy may have been stored in the Benedictine monestary in Beuron (D-BEU). However, this copy has also now been lost. We are left with only a few pieces transmitted in various critical editions from when the copy was known.

Description by Philipp Spitta

Eine Handschrift A. G. Ritters in Magdeburg, von ihm dem Herausgeber freundlichst zur Verfügung gestellt. Sie ist im Jahre 1838 nach einem von Georg Grobe 1675 in deutscher Tabulatur geschreibenen Buche angefertigt. Damals befand sich dieses im Besitze des Organisten Hildebrand zu Mühlhausen i. Th.; nach Hildebrands Tode ist es samt dessen übrigem musikalischen Nachlasse verloren gegangen. Quelle für V

A manuscript of A. G. Ritter in Magdeburg, kindly provided to the editor. It is copied in 1838 after a 1675 boook by Georg Grobe written in German Tablature. At that time this was found in the collection of the organist Hildebrand in Mühlhausen, Thuringia; after the death of Hildebrand it along with the musical legacy within has been lost. Source for BuxWV 148.

References

Belotti, Michael (editor), Dietrich Buxtehude: The Collected Works. Vol. 15: Preludes, Toccatas, and Ciacconas for Organ (Pedaliter): Commentary. New York: The Broude Trust, 1998. 18.

Spitta, Philipp (editor), Dietrich Buxtehudes Werke: Für Orgel. Neue Ausgabe von Max Seiffert. Erster Band. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel (undated). iii (Handschrift 4)) IMSLP²⁴¹⁹¹⁴