Can you identify this favourite chorale prelude? Vater unser im Himmelreich

Can you identify the composer? This is not an "organ lesson" episode, but a spontaneous response to a visitor question about which is my favourite chorale prelude. It's not a question I can answer, of course - how do you choose just one? - but it's the first one that occurred to me and I happened to have with me on the day.
The identity of the composer? That's revealed after you've heard the piece.
The series is presented by Dr Tim Rishton (www.rishton.eu)
This episode was recorded in St.-Johanniskirche, Neubrandenburg in Germany. For details of the organ, see orgel-verzeich...

[@timrishton5871]

Other "mystery pieces", see ruclips.net/p/PLABcWksVExXvxC7tUrbVg2kfqxyJGdrgX

[@nilsvanvelzen]

Indeed a very beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing.

[@timrishton5871]

Glad you enjoyed it! Tim

[@martinholcik1597]

Wonderful! Love the registration.

[@timrishton5871]

So glad - thanks! Tim

[@TamsinJones]

I had never heard the piece, and my guess was Pachelbel, on account of the work's smoothness and a rather elusive 'poetic' quality I associate with Pachelbel's writing. I now want to go and learn pieces by the actual composer 🙂. Thank you so much for another great video and a beautiful performance.

[@timrishton5871]

So glad you enjoyed the piece. This composer is rather overlooked and underrated these days. Another favourite (rather different: very upbeat feel) is his Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr. Good luck with them! Tim

[@Giggleswick84]

Such a gorgeous and moving chorale prelude. I didn't know it before and would never have guessed the composer. Beautiful organ and performance, too. Thank you.

[@timrishton5871]

Thank you! Like you say, he's not the first composer we would think of, and is rather underrated. Glad you like the prelude! Tim

[@malcleitch7106]

Very nice piece and ver nicely played. Chordal accompaniment reminded me of Erbarm' dich mein, O Herre Gott.

[@timrishton5871]

Yes it does, though the extra interest of the rests makes it more rhythmic. Glad you enjoyed it! Tim

[@user-jv1wz3ps8b]

My favourite too!!!

[@timrishton5871]

So glad you like it! Tim

[@ojotut]

I'm curious why you find it so outstanding? I wish you could have given us more reasons for your opinion that it is so outstanding. I admit, that I don't recall ever hearing it before, and I only listened to it once. And I didn't hear anything that seemed all that special to me....sounded typical for the era and country it was composed in. Maybe I am just ignorant...educate me!

[@timrishton5871]

I like the way that long melodic lines are supported by the constant rhythm of the left hand and pedal, but I especially love the way the melody grows from relatively constrained around the middle octave into these great lyrical flowerings like 3:16 to 4 and then especially from 4:53.
But I deliberately didn't talk about the music because my intention with this episode was not to "educate", but rather to give an immediate and off-the-cuff response to the question "which is your favourite chorale prelude?" - a question I really couldn't answer, except that this is a piece that I really love (and which I happened to have with me on the day). Tim

[@Ann0-23-ky7dq]

Böhm…

[@timrishton5871]

Yes, indeed! Tim