Georg Muffat (1653-1704)- Toccata Septima (Apparatus musico-organisticus, 1690)
Freddie James,Organ
Franziskanerkirche, Luzern, Switzerland
Organ (III/34) by Sebald Manderscheidt 1653, reconstructed and restored by Orgelbau Goll, Luzern in 1988
Audio and video, Oren Kirschenbaum
Recorded on May 13th 2022
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Georg Muffat was one of the baroque era‘s great cosmopolitans: born in the region of Savoy (France) with Scottish ancestry, he studied in France and Italy, before working in France, Germany, Austria and Czechia. His music combines these different influence into a European synthesis: he wrote "as I mix the French manner with the German and Italian, I do not begin a war, ...