Johann Sebastian Bach : Short Preludes and Fugues

Classical Solos for flute complements Clardy’s two volumes of Classical Duets. Included are short biographies of the seven composers represented, along with performance suggestions for each piece. Flutists will recognize the must-have repertoire works, such as the Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita in A minor, Kuhlau Divertissement No. 1 in G and Debussy’s Syrinx, which is otherwise available in the U.S. only in the original Jobert copyright. For listening and learning purposes, Classical Solos contains an audio CD of Clardy’s playing selected pieces. Another beautiful package from UE!/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière

“A mendicant woman from the Haynstrasse aged 59 years Anna Magdalena née Wilckin widow of Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach cantor at the St. Thomas School” – thus reads the entry dated 29 February 1760 in the Leipzig 'Ratsleichenbuch” (City Register of Deaths) for a woman whose name has become known throughout the world thanks to the two music books put together for her by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach himself opened the book with two of the large Partitas subsequently published in the first part of the 'Clavierübung”; the rest of the contents was determined by Anna Magdalena. On the whole these areshort pieces of “galanterie”: minuets polonaises marches compositions by the elder children and attempts by the younger ones little pieces which she copied out of the family guest book and which had been written there more or less as tokens of friendship by the many visitors in the Bach home. - Urtext of the New Bach Edition - Edition with fingering also available BA5242 - Bibliophile performing edition hardback BA5115

Besides being an influential and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was one of the great teachers of his day. He was a dedicated master of the keyboard always exploring and expanding his knowledge of the instrument. Technique was of paramount significance to Bach and he was always developing exercises to improve his students??? playing. Bach developed those exercises into the pieces presented in 18 Short Preludes. However these compositions are more than keyboard exercises. They are light airy fun works that reflect Bach???s love of the short simple prelude form. They provide the beginning student with an excellent introduction to the genius ofJ.S. Bach.This edition was carefully and methodically prepared by Willard A. Palmer. An introductory section offers a thorough explanation of trills mordents appoggiaturas and other proper ornamentation applicable to these preludes. This feature helps make this edition of Bach???s 18 Short Preludes the most practical and attractive one available.

A selection of best-loved legendary music by one of the giants of the Baroque era appears in this magnificent compilation of keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Rich in unending melodic invention rhythmic flow and harmonic ingenuity beyond its time these pieces will delight amateur and professional pianists alike. Selections include Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue Italian Concerto Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Prelude and Fugue in C Minor. Additional shorter works include Little Preludes Inventions Minuets. This superb compilation unites a generous selection of music in one convenient attractive and modestly priced volume.

Preludes Toccatas Fantasias and Fugues II/Early Versions and Variants to I (Vol. 5) & II (Vol. 6)-Johann Sebastian Bach's Complete Organ Works in revised editions.Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now all of Bärenreiter?s new performing editions of Bach?s Organ works are being revised to reflect the current state of scholarship and to convey maximum fidelity to the sources by being linked to ?Bach digital?.The present volume is an updated edition of Series IV Volume 6 of the ?New Bach Edition? (NBA) prepared by Dietrich Kilian in 1964. The discovery of new sources and a reassessmentof existing handwritten copies have brought about changes to the contents of the volume which now includes the ?Fantasia in C minor? (BWV 1121) the ?Fantasia in G major? (BWV 571) the ?Fugue in G major? (BWV 577) and the C major version of the ?Toccata and Fugue in E major? (BWV 566). On the other hand the ?Prelude in G major? (BWV 568) as well as the alternative versions of the ?Fugue in C minor? (BWV 574a) and the ?Prelude in A major? (BWV 536a) have been discarded as presumably spurious.Besides the new compilation and corrections of the musical text the volume also contains a detailed Foreword by Peter Wollny with observations on each work and the extant sources. Page turns have been re-examined and improved.In collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig and its ?Bach? digital database links are provided to all the major sources. The website http://links.baerenreiter.com enables readers to access the relevant page in the source simply and conveniently via short URLs. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis.Contents:BWV 551 563-566 (version in E major) 569-571 573-575 577-579 and 1121 / Early versions and variants to I (Vol. 5) and II (Vol. 6): BWV 532a 533a 535a 543a 545a 549a 566 (version in C major) and 574b.New detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) by Peter Wollny on the works and their sources.New contents reflecting the current state of source evaluations.Links to sources in ?Bach digital?.Complete new engraving and revised page-turns.

Faksimile der Originalhandschrift-J. S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena(1725).This hardback facsimile edition bound in green with gold trimmings and bearing the initials ???A.M.B.??? and ???1725??? on the front cover presents one of the greatest albums of household music. It is primarily the personal album of Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-1760) daughter of the court and military trumpeter Johann Caspar Wilcke a trained musician and court singer and second wife to Johann Sebastian Bach. The album contains partitas (two in Bach's own hand probably intended as a tribute to his wife) minuets polonaises marches and short pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach hischildren and a few visitors to the Bach home. The volume also contains little vocal pieces songs and chorales as well as exercises in harmony and thoroughbass realisations.The pieces are arranged chronologically (except for the last section) and several members of the Bach family helped with the copying - only Wilhelm Friedemann's hand is absent. The majority of the pieces (28 works) are in Anna Magdalena's hand and the volume provides a tantalising glimpse into the everyday world of this musical family.Documenta Musicologica II 25; Format 26cm x 20cm.Afterword (Ger-Eng-Fr); 140 pages facsimile; 24 pages text.

Bach’s Suite No.2 In B Minor BWV 1067 is one of the four surviving orchestral suites or Ouvertures - that is dance suites in the French style – as he would have named them. The second suite for Flute Strings and Basso Continuo is a beautiful work comprising 8 short movements and is arranged here for Flute with Piano Accompaniment by Erich List and Johannes Weyrauch. This Urtext edition provides you with an accurate realisation of the composer’s original intentions (for the Flute part that is) and thoroughly detailed editorial markings and suggestions.Just when you thought this edition provides you with enough it alsocomes with an accompanying CD which contains a recording of the orchestral part giving the flautist the opportunity the play with a proper orchestral accompaniment. Therefore you have the choice of practicing and performing this suite with either a piano or recorded orchestral accompaniment.

Practical performing Urtext edition based on the latest state of Bach research. Every era hears and interprets Bach anew and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition Klaus Hofmann Director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Göttingen for many years and a contributing editor to the New Bach Edition presents a new edition. Hofmann has placed the study of the sources at the service of musical practice and the detailed investigation of Bach’s intentions. Bach scholars are well aware that Bach’s original score and performance parts running to almost 500 pages of music are full of ambiguities and contradictions particularly regarding articulation which constantly challenge performers to new interpretations. Hofmann discusses these and other problems in a concise critical report frequently arriving at new conclusions in the process. Extensive notes about parallel passages offer valuable help for interpretation. Special attention was devoted to the performance material with regard to practical needs. Thus for example the text incipits are also printed in the instrumental parts (including tacet passages). In short - an Urtext edition for practical performance based on the latest findings in Bach research.

The famous first movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 arranged by Richard Meyer has been simplified and shortened for the first-year player but still retains all the energy and spirit of the original. It uses only the notes of the D major scale (including a few 'high E's' for Violin I) and the rhythms are within reach of players with very little experience. The perfect selection for your beginning orchestra's first 'real piece ' this arrangement is sure to become a traditional part of your string curriculum.

Orgel Büchlein-Volume 1 of Bach?s organ music presents some of the most frequently played organ pieces altogether. Here they appear in a new engraving based on the New Bach Edition (NBA).This updated edition takes into account the latest findings of Bach scholarship: thus for example a newly-discovered copy of the first edition containing inscriptions in Bach?s own hand could be incorporated into the musical text of the Schübler Chorales.For the Orgel-Büchlein Bach?s autograph manuscript remains the principal source. Yet a glance at its early dissemination among his pupils reveals an abundance of readings that give interested organists insights into how perhaps Bach?smost famous collection was played at that time.Unfortunately no autograph manuscripts survive regarding the early chorale partitas. However the Foreword helps to solve the ?riddle? of how these partitas were handed down.Links to major sources have been provided in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig and its Bach digital database. The relevant page of the source in question can be accessed quickly and conveniently via shortlinks at http://links.baerenreiter.com. These links are checked for their validity on a regular basis.Urtext of the New Bach EditionComplete new engravingNew detailed Foreword by Christine Blanken (Ger/Eng)Links to relevant sources in Bach digitalVolume 1 hardback BA5056The Complete Organ Works: The Definitive Edition Now in 11 paperback volumes in a slipcase BA 5279

J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a German Baroque composer who is revered for the originality and skill of his contrapuntal and harmonic techniques. Although he spent most of his life working as an organist and choirmaster he was familiar with many different keyboard instruments. He used this knowledge when composing his six French Suites in 1722-1725.French Suite No.2 in C Minor (BWV813) is a collection of sevenshort dance-style pieces for solo Piano Harpsichord or Clavichord.This popular edition from the highly-regarded musicologist Orlando Morgan is designed with the performer in mind and is still seen as the bestedition available for students today. It includes phrasing fingering and annotations.

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.

These Twelve Little Préludes composed by J. S. Bach combine to create a great variety of pieces that are all relatively short but do require a good understanding of technique. Arranged forPiano. All of these pieces are great fun to play but they also exhibit that beautiful grasp of musicality that Bach's larger longer works?were known for.

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Practical performing Urtext edition based on the latest state of Bach research. Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Hofmann, Director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Göttingen for many years and a contributing editor to the New Bach Edition, presents a new edition. Hofmann has placed the study of the sources at the service of musical practice and the detailed investigation of Bach’s intentions. Bach scholars are well aware that Bach’s original score and performance parts, running to almost 500 pages of music, are full of ambiguities and contradictions, particularly regarding articulation, which constantly challenge performers to new interpretations. Hofmann discusses these and other problems in a concise critical report, frequently arriving at new conclusions in the process. Extensive notes about parallel passages offer valuable help for interpretation. Special attention was devoted to the performance material with regard to practical needs. Thus, for example the text incipits are also printed in the instrumental parts (including tacet passages). In short - an Urtext edition for practical performance based on the latest findings in Bach research. J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244 for SATB and Piano. Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Hofmann, Director of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute Göttingen for many years and a contributing editor to the New Bach Edition, presents a new edition. Hofmann has placed the study of the sources at the service of musical practice and the detailed investigation of Bach's intentions. Bach scholars are well aware that Bach's original score and performance parts, running to almost500 pages of music, are full of ambiguities and contradictions, particularly regarding articulation, which constantly challenge performers to new interpretations. Hofmann discusses these and other problems in a concise critical report, frequently arriving at new conclusions in the process. Extensive notes about parallel passages offer valuable help for interpretation. Special attention was devoted to the performance material with regard to practical needs. Thus, for example the text incipits are also printed in the instrumental parts (including tacet passages). In short - an Urtext edition for practical performance based on the latest findings in Bach research./ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte et Instrument Divers