Johann Christian Conrad

3. Jesu meine Freude &c.
  Vorspiele unterschiedener Art für die Orgel,

  von Johann Christoph Conrad,

  Organisten zu Eisfeld

(Leipzig: Breitkopf, ca 1770)

This elegant setting of Crüger’s tune comes from a small publication by the little-known organist-composer Johann Christian Conrad, consisting of a prelude or trio, fugue, and four chorale preludes.

Gottfried August Homilius

Nom.16. Schmücke dich o liebe Seele
  32 Præludia :| zu geistlichen Liedern |

  vor | zwey Claviere u Pedal. |

  von | Homilius |

  Cantor an der Creuz Kirche |zu Dreßden

  D-Dl (Dresden) MS Mus.3031-U-1

Homilius was a student of Bach in the late 1730s and one of the most impotant German church composers of the generation after him. After his studies with Bach, he served several churches in Dresden until his death in 1785. The present work (found also in at least two other manuscripts, with some variants) was formerly attributed to Bach as BWV 759.

Johann Ludwig Krebs

Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten. di Krebs
  D-B (Berlin) Mus.Ms. 12011/6

(1800)

Krebs, like his father, studied with Bach, and he was highly regarded by the master. This piece is found in (at least) two manuscripts in the Preußischer Kulturbesitz in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: a version in C minor (styled a ‘Fantasia’ upon the chorale) in Mus.Ms. 12011 (dated ca 1750), used as the basis for Gerhard Weinberger’s edition for Breitkopf und Härtel, and one in A minor in Mus.Ms. 12011/6 (dated 1800). The two are virtually identical; I chose to record the latter in my own transcription from the source. 

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

Schmücke dich o liebe Seele
  Versuch in figurierten Chorälen,

  sowohl für die Orgel, also für das Clavichord,

  von Fried. Wilh. Marpurg. Book 1.

(Berlin & Amsterdam: Hummel, ca 1790)

Marpurg was, among other things, the leading German music theorist of the late eighteenth century.
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