Vater unser im Himmelreich (2)

The second choral prelude by Johann Schneider on the choral “Vater unser im Himmelreich” was written pro organo pleno. It has the choral melody in the pedal in long solemn notes. In good baroque tradition each phrase of the melody in the bass line is introduced by itself in the three others voices. And to show that Schneider knew his counter point, these introductory episodes use the usual tricks like dimunition, stretto and inversion of the phrase to be presented in the bass voice.

Score available here:
http://partitura.org/index.php/johann-schneider-vater-unser-im-himmelreich-2/