Volume I of this  projected two-volume practical Urtext edition is the first to unite all the keyboard works of Georg  Muffat (1653–1704) and  Wolfgang  Ebner  (1612–1665).<br>
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That the clavier music of a composer of Muffat’s stature should remain unpublished, apart from three pieces, is a mystery of musical scholarship. Muffat  was, after all, a precursor of Johann Sebastian Bach on a par with Buxtehude,  Pachelbel  and the  Krieger brothers. This edition contains the previously unpublished works in  Codex XIV 743  from the  Minorite  Abbey in  Vienna , as well as the three harpsichord  pieces from  Apparatus  Musico-Organisticus  that have already  appeared in print.<br>
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Ebner was an organist and then was chapel-master at St. Stephen’s in  Vienna at the same time as Johann Jacob  Froberger . Later he became the teacher of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I. A master of strict counterpoint, his music surpassed even  Froberger’s  in virtuosity.<br>
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Volume I contains a critical report (German/English) and a detailed preface (German/English) with sections on the source material, editorial method, performance practice and ornamentation as well as a discussion of each work.<br>