Gilberto Guarino plays Fischer. Hauptwerk 4. Silbermann organ.St. Georgen Kirche, Rötha, Sachsen, Deutschland. Sample Set by Milan Digital Audio.
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was born on September, 6, 1656, in Schönfeld, a small Bohemian town around 20 km. south of Carlsbad. Our knowledge of his life and work is still quite poor. Be that as it may, "Baden Capellmeister Fischer" is quoted by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as one of the composers his father studied carefully. As a matter of fact, it is perfectly established that Bach made use of the theme of the E major fugue from "Ariadne Musica" (one of the two collections Fischer wrote specifically for the organ, the other one being "Blumen-Strauss") as the subject of the E major fugue ("WTC II").
Fischer composed 20 Preludes and Fugues in 19 of the 24 keys (20, if taken into account one in E Phrygian), probably to be played on the apse choir organ in the cistercian monastery of Tepl, an instrument with no more than 10 (ten) stops which was not that hard to be retuned. The idea seems to echoe Andreas Werckmeister's work on "Musicalische Temperatur" (1686).
The "Musicalischer Parnassus", where we can find the "Chaconne in F Major, does not seem to have been conceived as an organ collection, but some of its pieces of music just fit the realms of the instrument, provided no "pedaliter" is considered.
If we take a closer look at bars 105 to 107 and 109 to 111, we can identify the presence of the "figura bombilans".
Please, pay attention to the beauty of the Principal 8' and the Rohrflöte 4'.
Silbermann Organs are outstanding instruments, but, according to Yearsley, "Bach was apparently less lavish in his praise for the more famous organs of G.S.; although he found no major faults in these instruments, he criticised them for having mixtures that were 'all too weak', and questioned Silbermann's unwillingness to build new stops, presumably meaning the colourful string stops found on many Thuringian organs such as those by Trost (Williams 1984: 118)." (In "The Cambridge Companion to the Organ", p. 245, Cambridge University Press 1998).

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