Georg Böhm - ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH SEI EHR [Hauptwerk // Noordbroek]

In this video you can hear my rendition of Georg Böhm’s “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr” played on my Hauptwerk organ. I have chosen to use the sample set of Noordbroek, created by Sonus Paradisi. Some weeks ago I recorded Böhm’s “Vater unser im Himmelreich“. Perhaps his most beloved chorale prelude. A trademark of that piece is the amount of trills, mordents and other embellishments the cantus firmus has. So I started looking for some more music from Böhm and stumbled upon his chorale prelude on the hymn “Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr“. I found an edition with a huge amount of ornaments and thought that’s it would be a perfect sequal. I think there is at at least one ornament in average per bar. It’s fun and wonderful :) Georg Böhm (1661-1733) was one of the leading organists and organ composers in his part of Germany in the years around 1700, and may have been an important influence on J.S. Bach. Georg Böhm’s father w