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The Clavier-Übung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for organ, containing some of his most musically complex and technically demanding compositions for ...
Partita No. 5 from Clavier-Übung I: G maj. Keyboard 3: 102 V/1: 72 00967: 830 8. 1725–1730 Notebook A. M. Bach No. 2 = Partita No. 6 from Clavier-Übung I: E min. Keyboard 3: 116 V/1: 90 V/4: 60 after BWV 1019a/3 /5 00968: 831 8. 1733–1735 Overture in the French style (Clavier-Übung II No. 2) B min. Harpsichord 3: 154 V/2: 20 after BWV ...
Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime (1685–1750) include works for keyboard instruments, such as his Clavier-Übung volumes for harpsichord and for organ, and to a lesser extent ensemble music, such as the trio sonata of The Musical Offering, and vocal music, such as a cantata published early in his career.
Clavier-Übung II, for harpsichord with two manuals, contains the Italian Concerto, BWV 971 and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831, and was published in 1735; Clavier-Übung III, for organ, contains the Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, 21 chorale preludes, BWV 669–689, and the Four Duets, BWV 802–805, and was published in 1739
Title page of Bach's Opus 1 (Clavier-Übung I, 1731), the only time he seems to have used an opus number. Apart from indicating his first published keyboard composition as Opus 1, Bach did not use opus numbers. Lists following publication chronologies are for example implied in the first list in Bach's obituary, and BG numbers (within the BGA ...
Clavier-Übung, in more modern spelling Klavierübung, is German for "keyboard exercise". In the late 17th and early 18th centuries this was a common title for keyboard music collections: first adopted by Johann Kuhnau in 1689, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the term later became mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach 's four Clavier-Übung publications .
The toccatas represent Bach's earliest keyboard compositions known under a collective title. [1] The earliest sources of the BWV 910, 911 and 916 toccatas appear in the Andreas-Bach Book, [2] an important collection of keyboard and organ manuscripts of various composers compiled by Bach's oldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach between 1707 and 1713.
Suzuki is also currently recording Bach's complete works for solo harpsichord and is one of the few keyboard players to have recorded all four books of Bach's Clavier-Übung (including book 3, which is for organ). He and the Bach Collegium Japan have also recorded the Bach concertos for violin and his Brandenburg Concertos and Orchestral Suites.