Bach J. S. - Preludes and Fugues From The Well-tempered Clavier - Guitare

An extensive volume filled with fugues from the last 350 years! Beginning with works by Frescobaldi Scarlatti Giambattista and Handel this collection features several compositions by the fugue's most famous expositor Johann Sebastian Bach including many pieces from the Well-Tempered Clavier. Contributions from latter-day composers include works by Mozart Beethoven Mendelssohn Robert and Clara Schumann Brahms and Saint-Saëns.

Easy Piano-The Bach Busters series unlocks some of the less well known but equally beautiful preludes from Book 1 of J.S. Bach's 48 Preludes & Fugues through subtle transposition and re-notation.Grade: 2 - 5

A selection of Bachâ??s best-known most-performed and most-recorded works for the keyboard reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The l6 works principally preludes fugues and fantasias are reproduced in a format ideal for study and practice.

The Bach Busters series 'unlocks' some of the less well known but equally beautiful Preludes and Fugues from J.S.Bach's Well Tempered Clavier through transposition and subtle re-notation.Grades 4-8 standard.

A bigger book than book 1. Beautiful music revitalised from dark corners of Book 2 of the 48 Preludes & Fugues.Grade: 2 - 5

This inexpensive compilation draws upon authoritative sources to present favorite Piano works of the Baroque era. Unlike many other anthologies of music from the era which vary widely in the quality of their content this collection comprises only the greatest works of the period. Intermediate and advanced Pianists will find these carefully chosen pieces a rewarding and satisfying reflection of the glories of the Baroque. Selections include Johann Sebastian Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue as well as the French Suite No. 5; Fantasia in C Minor BWV 906; and preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Other works byBach include the great composer's transcriptions for keyboard of five violin concertos by Vivaldi reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Other selections include several pieces by Handel among them the popular Air and Variations known as The Harmonious Blacksmith; four sonatas by Scarlatti; and works by Telemann Rameau and Purcell.

Grand choix de belles pièces, difficile de trouver un grand nombre ailleurs. Inclus sont clavecin toccatas, Capriccio sur le départ de son frère bien-aimé, Aria variata 'alla Maniera Italiana 'et les 6 Petits Préludes, ainsi que de nombreuses compositions moins connues - plus de 40 en tout. Autorité Breitkopf and Härtel édition.Réimpression de sélections de Werke Johann Sebastian Bach, Série 3, 36, 42, 43, et 44, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, 1890, 1894 et 1897. / Piano

Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly starting on October 10 1950 and finishing on February 23 1951. While his work would pay homage to Bach Shostakovich's work would have several fundamental differences. First the order of the individual pieces would be organized around the circle of fifths with a prelude and fugue in the relative minor following each major key piece rather than in ascending semi-tonalorder of Bach's work. Second Shostakovich's pieces would be composed in order — that is C major - A minor followed by G major - E minor followed by D major - B minor — and more significantly this order would have a sort of subliminal narrative sub-text taking the music from the 'innocent' tonal world of the C major Prelude and Fugue to the profound and sublime severity of the concluding D minor Prelude and Fugue. Finally Shostakovich's work although conservative in its counterpoint and harmony — that is there are no examples of invertible or reversible themes or counterpoint and the pieces are for the most part recognizably tonal in language — is still clearly the work of a modernist composer; his counterpoint and harmony may be conservative but the emotional and spiritual worlds of the preludes and fugues is at once sincere and ironic. The result is a work which can not only stand comparison with Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier it is both Shostakovich's masterpiece for the piano and one of the contrapuntal masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 1 Preludes and Fugues I - with CD-ROM - ed. by David Schulenberg As close as possible to Bach In his ?Preludes and Fugues,? Johann Sebastian Bach made decisive contributions to the development of this genre tradition. The importance of this work group in his own organ oeuvre is confirmed by the many transmitted sources: hardly any autographs, but all the more copies. The genesis of the works and the question of versions associated with it are described at length in the introduction. In his new edition, editor David Schulenberg occasionally makes a new evaluation of the transmitted sources. To do so, he based himself as faithfully as possible on the manuscripts that can be traced back to Bach or to his circle. Here the American Bach expert generally chooses one source as his principal one. Divergences from other sources are documented in the Commentary. On the whole, the new Urtext edition sometimes also emends some long-cherished readings of ornaments, voice leading and notation. Also printed in Volume 1 is, for example, the early version of the C major Prelude BWV 545 as well as the inserted Trio movement of the three-movement version of this work. As with the previously published volumes, the CD-ROM enclosed in Volumes 1 and 2 contains dubious works and secondary versions for comparison with the principal versions. This time, the CD-ROMs are completely in German and English and feature the English version of the Commentary.