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Johann Philipp Krieger

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Johann Philipp Krieger

It is heartbreaking to imagine all the great music that has been lost just because it has not been properly and safely stored. The case of the German organ player Johann Philipp Krieger is particularly eloquent : out of the two thousand cantatas he wrote in the late seventeenth century, only seventy-six remain to this day ! And the baroque quality of his other works such as his Menuet in A minor make us wish that those lost treasures could be recovered.