Note 164 — REGISTRATION AND ORNAMENTS OF BACH’S ORGAN WORKS

This organ was the only one with three manuals which Bach could have had in mind while he was in Weimar with Walther; it is natural that in his compositions he should be preoccupied with an organ whose restoration he had planned, and undoubtedly supervised—Weimar being not far from Mühlhausen—and which in all probability he looked forward to inaugurating. This remark, moreover, may apply to the composition of the chorale In dir ist Freude, although here Bach had been disappointed.