ABSTRACT
The uneven quality of the musical texts makes it clear that this music must indeed have been copied and recopied several times before it arrived there, in significant contrast to the high quality of the great Brunswick-Luneburg tradition. The Heinrich Scheidemann group in Pelplin, moreover, shows a Janus face. On the one hand it consists of two chorales of questionable authenticity, a three-part setting of Gott der Vater wohn uns bei wv 77 and a four-part setting of Jesus Christus, unser Heiland wv 79. The two closely related organ anthologies KN208i and KN208ii were written by a contemporary and colleague of Scheidemann, the Luneburg musician Franz Schaumkell who was from 1617 until 1668 organist of the Johanniskirche. Scheidemann is the only composer named in this source while five more pieces from the second fascicle can be identified as his through concordances in addition, the fourth fascicle contains an unattributed concordance on the Allemand in c wv 116.
