Kirnberger, Variierte Choräle (black and white edition)

Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721 – 1783) was a musician, composer and music theorist. In 1758 he became music director for Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia. Anna Amalia was also a collector of music, preserving over 600 volumes of works by notables such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Karl Heinrich Graun and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, among others. One of the items in the Amalien Bibliothek is manuscript Am.B.396, a collection of organ preludes by Kirnberger. Probably they were used in the musical instructions Kirnberger gave Princess Anna Amalia. This edition contains the works in manuscript Am.B.396.