Inventions And Sinfonias (Urtext)

BWV772-801-Inventions & Sinfonias (BWV772-801) (Urtext).Paperback edition(with fingering)

The “Little Organ Book” perhaps the most celebrated collection ever of chorale preludes owes its title to J.S. Bach’s application for the post of Cantor at St Thomas’ Church in Leipzig. Lacking an academic degree Bach wanted to demonstrate his qualifications as a teacher through his compositions – including his Inventions Sinfonias and the “Well Tempered Klavier”. This also led him to append a misleading title to the most ambitious project of his time at Weimar: he called this collection of chorale preludes - originally meant to number 164 pieces - pieces for an “aspiring organist”. In fact the44 completed compositions of the “Little Organ Book” are demanding masterpieces which give an impressive display of the full range of the so-called short chorale prelude. This new critical edition returns for the first time to the format of the principal sources dating from Bach’s time in that most of the pieces are reproduced on two systems rather than three.

Johann Sebastian Bach's two-part inventions were an integral part of the study literature used in the composer's Piano lessons. And they are still just as important today. For Piano pupils there is no getting away from them for their basic demands 'to learn to play in tune' and 'to play in a cantabile style' are still valid. The musical text is based on the new Wiener Urtext edition of all of Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias edited by Ulrich Leisinger which keeps very close to the original manuscript of the composer. In the present edition the two-part inventions have been taken from the complete edition and published separately thusmaking them ideal for Piano lessons.

An amazingly inexpensive study edition presenting all of Bach's clavier music in four large handy volumes containing the definitive »Urtext« from the New Bach Edition. This unique edition was prepared by internationally recognized scholars on the basis of all known sources and the latest research findings. Besides familiar versions of many pieces the reader will also discover widely divergent and heavily ornamented variants from Bach's immediate circle. Many of these variants appear here for the first time in print. Generally the contrasting versions faithfully reflect the state of the sources: hybrid versions of the sort often found elsewhere have beenstrictly avoided. An indispensable and reliable edition for all admirers of Bach's clavier music.Contents:Vol. 1: The Well-Tempered Clavier I & IIVol. 2: Clavier Übung I - IV The Art of Fugue RicercariVol. 3: English Suites French Suites Inventions and Sinfonias Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena BachVol. 4: Preludes Individual Piano Works Toccatas Arrangements of Works by Other Composers

Following the acclaimed, award-winning publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 and 1725 (Best Edition 2020, German Music Publishers Association), Edition Peters is proud to present the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 in a new premium Urtext edition by world-renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.
Bach?s ?notebooks? provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. They contain original compositions, exercises, and model examples by other composers, all collected with a view to providing a rounded musical education to family members. The Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was compiled for Johann Sebastian?s eldest son, who himself went on to become one of the leading organists, improvisers and composers of his day. The book contains systematic exercises, first or early versions of three of Bach?s most important keyboard cycles (some of the preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Preambulums for the Two-part Inventions and Fantasias for the Three-part Sinfonias) and suites by Richter, Telemann and Stölzel among other items.
This luxury linen-bound edition with gold-embossed cover lettering is in line with the quality of the production of the much-praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach. It is produced in the original landscape format, ideal for use on a keyboard stand, and contains illustrations, premium-quality new engravings and full critical commentary.
This edition is the first new Urtext edition of the notebook in 60 years. It presents cutting-edge scholarship from the world?s leading Bach authority Professor Christoph Wolff including the most up to date research regarding attributions of authors and writers, new fragments brought to light by recently rediscovered manuscripts and the latest dating of sources.
New Urtext Edition of the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 by Christoph Wolff
First new Urtext Edition for 60 years
Highest possible level of scholarship
Follows acclaimed publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 and 1725
Landscape format, optimal for piano and keyboard players
Premium linen binding
Bibliophile edition
Praise for The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach:
?Every aspect of this edition screams quality; it is quite simply a thing of great beauty!? - Pianodao.com
?There are countless editions of the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Edition Peters has now published a complete edition for the first time, containing the complete material from Bach's 1722 and 1725 notebooks. Christoph Wolff, renowned Bach specialist, professor at Harvard University and long-time director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, is the editor of this bibliophile Urtext edition.
Bibliophile is the right term here [...] the publication shows the company?s deep connection to Bach in several ways. In addition to a foreword, the inside pages contain all piano pieces from Bach's books in a clean, very well-placed typesetting. Reproductions of Bach?s original manuscript make the bridge between the past and the present easy to understand. Close to the original and very beautifully realised, this Notebook is worthy of distinction.? - Deutsche Musikverleger-Verband (Best Edition 2020)
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