This is my entry for the secrest of organ playing contest, week 36.
I play the prelude in g minor from Kellner, the twin prelude to the C major prelude I played a few months ago for the Secrets of Organ playing Contest. I call it the twin prelude, because it appears in the same manuscipt as the C major one.
It is a pleasant work, written in a concerto like style. The musical material of the first few bars is repeated several times in different keys, a common procedure in the Baroque era. Even though there is no real development in the musical material, the different keys create variation and the use of the same musical material create a coherent whole. And that is what musical form is all about: recognizibility, variation and coherent whole. Variation in unity. Or was it unity in variation?
O well, never mind. I f you want to play it yourself, the score is available on my site: http://partitura.org/index.php/johann-peter-kellner-prelude-pro-organo-pleno-in-g/
The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sample set of the Mascioni organ of the parish church in Azzio, made by Piotr Gabrowsky.