List of Historical Registrations Used in Chorale Fantasias

This page is a list of surviving accounts of registrations from the Baroque era that were used for Chorale Fantasias, particularly noting examples in which the melody is played on a manual other than the Rückpositiv.

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Matthias Weckmann

The account of the 1655 audition for the job at St. Jacobikirche in Hamburg by Matthias Weckmann includes a description of the registration he used for an improvised chorale fantasia on An Wasserflüssen Babylon.

Next he treated the sacred church hymn that had been given him: "An Waßerflüßen Babylon" with pedal and two manuals. In the Oberwerck he used the registration of the late Jacob Schultz, as was his custom at St. Peter's, namely Trommete 8, Zinke 8, Nassat 3, Gemshorn 2, Hohlfleute 4 foot; in the Rückpositiv, Principal 8 and Oktave 4 foot for the soft middle part; in the pedal Posaune 16 foot, Prinzipal-Baß 24, Trommete 8 and 4 foot, Cornet 2 foot. All these stops, except Principal 24, were on the Jacobi organ at that time.