The coexistence of pieces, whose writing go back to the austerity of the late renaissance counterpoint (old style), and of the others, with a light and mostly melodic plot, scatter with gallant gestures (‘neue Gusto’), is a characteristic of the serial publication that, from 1733 on, would have constituted the Harmonische Seelenlust, i.e. the first collection of chorale preludes for organ to appear in print since Scheidt’s Tabulatura Nova of 1624.
Amongst the 98 chorales preludes of the Harmonische Seelenlust virtually every type urrent at the time is represented, including duets, fughettas and a variety of cantus firmus settings. In some of them the chorale melody has to be “played à part on the oboe”: the mix of the two sounds turns out to be especially happy if the “oboe is placed in order to give the impression that it is an organ’s stop”.