Josef Seger

An extremely prolific composer, Seger became one of the most important representatives of the Czech organ school of the 18th century.

He also studied organ playing with Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, counterpoint with Jan Zach and František Tůma, and, according to Dlabacž, figured bass with Felix Benda.

Particularly important was the publication of a portion of his figured bass exercises, which were used by teachers for decades after his death.

Hundreds of preludes, fugues, toccatas and other organ pieces survive in manuscript copies, although the attribution to Seger of some of these works is problematic.

Generally speaking, his preludes and fugues are short works (their length probably dictated by the limitations imposed by the Catholic liturgy), but they exhibit a fertile harmonic imagination and a perfect grasp of late Baroque counterpoint practice.