Bach: Concerti a Cembalo obligato, BWV 1052-1059
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- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Editor: Christoph Wolff
- Format: Facsimile of The Autograph
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN:
- Size: 9.4 x 15.7 inches
- Pages: 132
Description
Music for a Leipzig "coffee house" and for other venues – Johann Sebastian Bach composed not only for the nobility and the church, but also for bourgeois musical culture. Among these works are the harpsichord concertos. They are noted down in a manuscript that is a unique and probably the most important document for the instrumental repertoire of the Leipzig "Collegium Musicum".
Bach arranged his concerto movements in such a way that the harpsichord is given a solo part that exploits the instrument's "clavieristic" possibilities to the full. These works thus fix a decisive moment in the early history of the piano concerto genre which received significant impulses from Bach and his circle of students.
The autograph offers revealing insights into the composer's working methods, elucidated by Christoph Wolff in an accompanying essay. Martina Rebmann describes the genesis of the Bach collection at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, which holds the autograph.
The facsimile in high-quality four-colour printing reproduces the extensive score in its original size; BWV and bar numbers on every page facilitate its use.
All information on this facsimile in a pdf file for download.
Contents:
- Facsimile: Concerti a Cembalo obligato:
- Concerto in d Minor BWV 1052
- Concerto E Major BWV 1053
- Concerto D Major BWV 1054
- Concerto A Major BWV 1055
- Concerto f Minor BWV 1056
- Concerto F Major BWV 1057
- Concerto g Minor BWV 1058
- Concerto d Minor BWV 1059
- Commentary:
- Bach's Harpischord Concertos: On the Way to the Piano Concerto
- The Johann Sebastian Bach autographs in the Staatsbibliothen zu Berlin
- Kommentar:
- Bachs Cembalokonzerte - auf dem Weg zum Klavierkonzert
- Über Johann Sebastian Bachs Autographen in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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Bach: Concerti a Cembalo obligato, BWV 1052-1059
