Johann Baptist Peyer, Fuga, Tertii Toni (RV 39)

Most recordings I upload to youtube I publish as well on the website http://contrabombarde.com . That's a website dedicated to recordings of organ music made with Software like Hauptwerk, Grandorgue and Organteq. There is now a collaborative effort on contrebombarde.com to record the known compositions by Johann Baptist Peyer. You could call it: the Peyer Parade. Johann Baptist Peyer (1680 - 1733) was an Austrian organist and composer. The main source of his compositions is manuscript Mus. Ms. 1220, held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. That manuscript contains 4 fascicles. The scribe of the manuscript ascirbes the music in the first fascicle to Andreas Bayer (1710 - 1740), the music in fascicles 2 and 3 to Peyer and the music in fascicle 4 to "Sig Beÿer". The music in fascicles 2 and 3 is more modern, more like the galant style, than you would expect for someone born in 1680. Some scholars therefore believe that the ascription to Peyer in this manuscript is an error, and that it is more likely that Andreas Bayer (who was born 30 years later than Peyer) is in fact the composer of this music. Be that as it may, Bayer or Peyer, it is attractive music to play and to listen to. The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Klapmeyer organ in the St. Nikolai church in Altenbruch (http://www.sonusparadisi.cz/en/organs/germany/klapmeyer-organ-altenbruch.html) .

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