The Well-Tempered Clavier - (Dover Music for Piano) by Johann Sebastian Bach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>All 48 preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys. Authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Explanation of ornaments in English, tempo indications, music corrections.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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. -- <i>Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians</i>.<br>This informed assessment of the genius of Bach's works can be applied with greatest accuracy to <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier.</i> 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.<br>The grace and fecundity of <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> 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 <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> and his style developed a new polyphonic richness and depth of harmony. Beethoven studied all the accessible works of Bach profoundly (including <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i>) and frequently quoted them in his sketchbooks, often with direct bearing on his own works. Chopin is nowhere more characteristic than when he shows his love of <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> in his Etudes and Preludes. It was Schumann who, in a series of maxims for young musicians, said Make <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> your daily bread.<br>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. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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. -- <i>Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians</i>.<br>This informed assessment of the genius of Bach's works can be applied with greatest accuracy to <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier.</i> 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.<br>The grace and fecundity of <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> 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 <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> and his style developed a new polyphonic richness and depth of harmony. Beethoven studied all the accessible works of Bach profoundly (including <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i>) and frequently quoted them in his sketchbooks, often with direct bearing on his own works. Chopin is nowhere more characteristic than when he shows his love of <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> in his Etudes and Preludes. It was Schumann who, in a series of maxims for young musicians, said Make <i>The Well-Tempered Clavier</i> your daily bread.<br>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.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments exemplify the heart and soul of the Baroque period. A revival of interest and performances of his music began early in the 19th century and continue to this day. He is now widely considered to be one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition.
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