ABSTRACT
Whereas the toccata, the fantasia and the secular variation cycle were as genres only sporadically continued by Sweelinck's North German pupils, the chorale variation cycle became a central genre with them. Anonymous chorale cycle from LyB identifiable through concordances as a work by Heinrich Scheidemann occurs in LyB3: a two-verse set on Vater unser im Himmelreich WV 26I—II appearing as if copied out erroneously in this fascicle principally devoted to praeambula. The rarity of the bicinium with Scheidemann, occurring only in four cycles and, moreover, solely in the form of a single verse, was one of the main reasons to reattribute the anonymous five-movement Jesus Christus unser Heiland II from Ze1, given to him by both Breig and Fock, to Sweelinck. There are no known variation sets by Scheidemann which exceed the four-variation format as has been seen, are rare and were apparently subject to trimming by the composer.
