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Theile: Suite aus Musikalisches Kunstbuch

for 4 instruments.

This work is by far the latest in date to appear in our series. Johann Theile´s Musikalisches Kunstbuch of 1691, is a kind of early cross between the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue, containing as it does a large number of different musical forms, mostly canonic or at least rigourously contrapuntal. The present suite (though not called that in the source), is not at all rigorous in that sense, but it is quite old-fashioned in style, and could perhaps have been written 50 or 60 years before; hence its inclusion in the series.
Johann Theile (1646-1724) was a pupil of Heinrich Schütz: he worked variously in Lübeck, Stettin (now Szczecin), Hamburg, Wolfenbüttel, and Berlin. He was primarily a composer of church music to German and Latin texts: a couple of rather fine sonatas have survived.
Theile´s suite is originally in G: we have transposed it down a tone to bring the top part into a more comfortable range. As the bass part is often rather low, we have provided alternatives in small notes.