The Well-Tempered Clavier Part I-The Well-Tempered Clavier was the title given to the book of twenty-four preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys which was composed and compiled during Bachâ??s appointment in Kothen in 1722. Bach later wrote afurther twenty-four preludes and fugues and so the forty-eight preludes and fugues eventually became collectively known as the Well-Tempered Cla…

This volume collects four of the most important keyboard masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach?the 'Goldberg' Variations Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue Fantasia Contrappuntistica and Concerto for Piano andOrchestra in D Minor?in arrangements by celebrated pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni for his 1919 Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Additional features include Busoni's original systemof keyboard n…

A complete reconstruction based on the 1731 and 1744 versions of the text-In its various reconstructed and completed version Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Mark Passion BWV 247 occupies a fixed place in the pre-Easter concert repertoire. As the third of what were originally five Passions not only was it the latest to be written it is also the most enigmatic of the known Good Friday works com…

Edited by Eduard Herrmann. Johann Sebastian Bach one of the greatest German musicians was born in 1685 and died in 1750. His works are monuments of his art unsurpassed masterworks in counterpoint polyphony and harmony which not only merit general admiration but also urge to ardent study; for it may well be said that Bach's compositions mark an era in the development of modern music.

Zwei- und dreistimmige Inventionen-Johann Sebastian Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias better known as two- and three-part inventions were an integral part of the teaching repertoire used in the composer’s piano lessons. And they still are! For piano pupils there is no getting away from them for their basic demands that is ‘to learn to play in tune’ and ‘to achieve …

Half-leather binding-Facsimile of the autograph manuscript in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz.With a Commentary by Christoph Wolff and Martina Rebmann.Series: Documenta musicologica II/5090 pages of facsimile and 28 pages of Commentary (Eng/Ger).Half-leather binding.???The ???Well-Tempered Clavier??? is the Old Testament Beethoven's sonatas the New. We must believe in b…

St Mark Passion (BWV 247): A reconstruction.Recitatives and turbae by Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739).Although all that survives of Bach's ?St. Mark Passion? is Picander's libretto virtually all the arias and choruses can be reconstructed from ?parody? versions. The original recitatives and turbae however are probably lost forever. Rather than rewriting these numbers ?in Bachs's style? the edit…

Motet for five-part mixed choir-All of Bach?s six authenticated motets were written between 1723 and 1727 for St Thomas? Church Leipzig where Bach was appointed as director of music in 1723. During this period Bach composed most of his cantatas and it seems likely that for ordinary Sunday services he used existing motets from the seventeenth century tradition reserving his own motet compositi…

The infamous Six Cello Suites by J. S. Bach are perfectly arranged for the Clarinet by French clarinetist Ulysse Delécluse (1907-1995). Bach originally composed the Cello Suites some of the most recognisable and frequently performed solo compositions ever written for the instrument during the period 1717-1723 when he served as Kapellmeister in Köthen. Delécluse's adaptions for Clarinet (1965)…

G minor BWV 1058-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).The Concerto for Harpsic…