This two-volume practical  Urtext edition is the first edition to unite all the works firmly or loosely attributed to Georg  Muffat  (1653–1704) and Wolfgang Ebner (1612–1665).<br>
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It is a curiosity of musical scholarship that the clavier music of a composer of Georg  Muffat’s stature should remain unpublished apart from three pieces. Muffat , after all , was no less significant than Buxtehude,  Pachelbel  and  the Krieger brothers as a forerunner of  Johann Sebastian Bach.<br>
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Wolfgang  Ebner was organist and later “Kapellmeister” at St. Stephen’s in Vienna at the same time as Johann Jacob Froberger . He taught the future Habsburg emperor Leopold I and wrote music that was the equal of  Froberger’s  in virtuosity  and contrapuntal rigour.<br>
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The second volume of this edition contains three partitas and a toccata by Muffat and several toccatas, contrapuntal works, variations and partitas by Ebner .  Like the first volume, it includes a critical report, a list of sources, and a detailed preface with sections  on editorial  method, performance practice, ornamentation, and commentaries on individual  works.<br>