Bach-Brahms: Chaconne in D Minor for the Left Hand
after BWV 1004
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- Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Editor: Valerie Woodring Goertzen (1954-)
- Fingering: Markus Bellheim
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Chaconne in D Minor for the Left Hand (after Bach’s Partita, BWV 1004), Anh. 1a/1, No. 5
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 19
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
The D Minor Chaconne is undoubtedly the most famous movement of all of Bach's 6 Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo. So it is hardly surprising that it has seen many arrangements. Johannes Brahms marvelled at how a single staff of music could offer "a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the mightiest emotions". He promptly made his own arrangement; it is for left hand alone, in order to come close to the restrictive framework of the original. He wrote enthusiastically: "A similar degree of difficulty, the manner of technique, the arpeggios – everything comes together to make me feel like a violinist!"