Bach: At the Piano
16 Well-Known Original Pieces
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- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Editor: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher
- Fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher
- Instrumentation: Piano
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 46
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Johann Sebastian Bach is more or less the alpha and omega of piano playing: there is hardly a piano pupil who did not start off with his little preludes or his inventions. and almost all pianists regard his Well-Tempered Clavier as an unsurpassed highpoint in the history of piano music. Henle's volume follows these well-trodden paths, but not without the occasional sideways glance at some less prominent pieces by the Master, such as his picturesque "Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother".
Works:
- Little Prelude, BWV 924
- Little Prelude, BWV 927
- Little Prelude for Beginners on Piano, BWV 936
- Chorale prelude "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten", BWV 691
- Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777
- Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774
- Arioso and Aria del Postiglione (from Capriccio B-dur), BWV 992
- Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
- Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792
- Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794
- Menuet from French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814
- Allemande, Sarabande and Gigue from French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 815
- Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Major, BWV 858
- Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 850
- Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 871
- Prelude and Fugue in B Minor, BWV 893
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