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Samtliche Werke fur Clavier (Orgel). Herausgegeben von Siegbert Rampe. Erstausgabe. Kassel: Barenreiter, c2003-2004.

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Georg Muffat and Wolfgang Ebner. Samtliche Werke fur Clavier (Orgel). Herausgegeben von Siegbert Rampe. Erstausgabe. Kassel: Barenreiter, c2003-2004. [Vol. 1 (Muffat: Partiten, pt. 1; Ebner: Toccata, Capriccio, Partita, Versetten): pref. (composers, sources, editorial method and performance practice, comments on the works, ornamentation) in Ger., Eng., p. iv-xix; score (with 3 facsims.), 64 p.; crit. commentary, p. 65-69. ISMN M-006-52062-6; BA 8419. [euro]24.95. Vol. 2 (Muffat: Partiten, pt. 2; Aria, Ciacona, Passagagli, Toccata; Ebner: Variationen in a, Capriccio, Partiten): pref., p. iii-xx; score (with 7 facsims.), 75 p.; Ebner's treatise on basso continuo (in facsim.), p. 77-80; crit. commentary, p. 81-85. ISMN M-006-52512-6; BA 8460. [euro]29.95.]

This review must start with a warning regarding content and express one major caveat regarding presentation. The word of warning: the inclusion of the parenthetical "Orgel" and "organ" together with the initial "samtliche " and "complete" in the publication's German-English parallel titles is likely to mislead. Unwary users not unreasonably expecting to find in these two volumes the complete keyboard works of both composers, including those solely for organ, will be disappointed. Siegbert Rampe's editorial preface (p. xii in both vols.) is more precise: "The present two-volume edition is the first to present the complete clavier works of Georg Muffat (1653-1704) and the complete keyboard music of Wolfgang Ebner (1612-1665)." In other words, the twelve great toccatas (with pedals) of Muffat's Apparatus musico-organisticus (Salzburg: Johann Baptist Mayr, 1690; facsim. eds., Dokumente zur Auffuhrungspraxis alter Musik, 1 [Innsbruck: Musikverlag Helbling, 1979]; Performers' Facsimiles, 181 [New York: Performers' Facsimiles, 1997]) are absent. Curiously, however, Rampe does include the three pieces that complete the Apparatus--the Ciacona, the Passacaglia (the edition retains the original spelling "Passagagli"), and the curious aria-variation set "Nova Cyclopeias harmonica"--since they "should be regarded as clavier works" (p. 2:xviii). He acknowledges the Ciacona and the variation set "will admit of [sic] performance on the organ" (ibid.), but the Passacaglia "being...

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