The Well-Tempered Clavier

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His art was of an encyclopedic nature, drawing together and surmounting the techniques, the styles, and the general achievements of his own and earlier generations and leading to a new perspective Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.This informed assessment of the genius of Bach s works can be applied with greatest accuracy to The Well Tempered Clavier. This highly influential work is monumental in the history of Western music It represents not only the culmination of Bach s own maturation process, but also the galvanization of the emerging style and structure of modern keyboard music.The grace and fecundity of The Well Tempered Clavier have thrilled audiences, musicians, and composers for centuries Mozart, when rapidly advancing to the height of his mastery, had but to read a manuscript copy of The Well Tempered Clavier and his style developed a new polyphonic richness and depth of harmony Beethoven studied all the accessible works of Bach profoundly including The Well Tempered Clavier and frequently quoted them in his sketchbooks, often with direct bearing on his own works Chopin is nowhere characteristic than when he shows his love of The Well Tempered Clavier in his Etudes and Preludes It was Schumann who, in a series of maxims for young musicians, said Make The Well Tempered Clavier your daily bread This remarkable volume contains all 48 preludes and fugues, from Books I and II, in all major keys, reproduced directly from the authoritative Bach Gesellschaft edition The fine engraving is beautiful, clear, and easy to read These elegant pieces, which vary in difficulty, are available complete in one low cost, convenient Dover edition. New Download The Well-Tempered Clavier [ author ] Johann Sebastian Bach [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr It turned out that playing blundering through a prelude and fugue a day was a bit ambitious the 48 day tour turned into a six month adventure Can t wait to go back and explore it all again.Actually it s the Associated Board book edited by Tovey but I want to start listing my music as a way of sorting it out and practising any unlearned music I have lurking in my filing cabinet There might be some stuff for sale too.See www.larips.com for an explanation of Bach s temperament wohl, nicht egal.isbn 9781854726544The praeludiums sp are a lot of fun if you play them slowly and not to Bach s time He really works out the fourth finger in one and five That is as far as I am in the book right now.

The Well-Tempered Clavier
  • English
  • 15 April 2017
  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • 0486245322
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • The Well-Tempered Clavier