Bach-Busoni: Chaconne
from Partita No. 2 in D Minor
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- Composer: Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
- Editor: Norbert Müllemann
- Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin (1961-)
- Introduction: Francis Bowdery
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 35
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Who isn't familiar with Johann Sebastian Bach's Chaconne, the final movement in his Partita in D Minor for violin solo? Time and again composers have been inspired to make this exceptional piece accessible for other instruments. Perhaps the best-known arrangement is by Ferrucio Busoni. Without distancing himself too greatly from Bach's original, he endeavours to transpose the virtuosity of the string writing onto the piano. Thus Busoni wrote for the piano in a way that congenially makes the most of the capabilities of the modern piano.