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Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770) was very famous at his time - only recently his importance especially for G. F. Handel could be proven. This collection consists of 25 unpublished capriccios and preludes from the manuscript kept in the Viennese Friars Minor Convent.
This volume is the latest publication in the well produced Diletto Musicale series; it is the first modern edition of twelve Capriccios, six Caprices and seven Preludes by the Austrian composer Gottlieb Muffat. (à) The works, all of which are between half a page and four pages in length, are all quite playable on manuals only. (à) The style and texture of these works is typical of that encountered in much Italian and South German repertoire of the period. Many of the Capriccios and Preludes open with slow-moving, arpeggiated chords, followed by a rapid development of activity, with scale passages in (demi-)semiquavers in one hand played against sutained chords in the other. The Caprices are more aria-like in style and are generally more consistently in three or four parts. A Preface (in German and English) provides the player with helpful information about composer, instruments and sources.
The pieces would make delightful preludes or postludes to a service on even the smallest of instruments; quite a few could be virtually sight-read by an organist of reasonable competence.
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DM1417
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201463
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first ed.
