The Chorale Prelude on ‘Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott’, BuxWV199, demonstrates the same basic approach as that adopted in ‘Mensch, willt du leben seliglich’: the melody is treated line by line, each embellished and separated from the others by a brief interlude. The work winds down over a dominant and then a tonic pedal, and Buxtehude closes as he began, with a rising scale.
from notes by Relf Clark © 2010
