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The story of how the variations came to be composed comes from an early biography of Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel: [1] [For this work] we have to thank the instigation of the former Russian ambassador to the electoral court of Saxony, Count Kaiserling, who often stopped in Leipzig and brought there with him the aforementioned Goldberg, in order to have him given musical instruction by Bach.
Open Goldberg Variations embraces open standards and coined the term "Open Source Bach" [6] in reference to the ideals of Open Source Software. The score and the recording were released into the public domain using the Creative Commons Zero ( CC0 ) license tool [ 7 ] on May 28, 2012.
Keyboard partita in A minor, BWV 827. This is the third partita from Bach's set of Partitas for keyboard BWV 825–830, which was published in 1731 as the first volume of Clavier-Übung. Keyboard partita in E minor, BWV 830. This is the sixth partita from Bach's set of Partitas for keyboard BWV 825–830. Minuet in F major, BWV Anh. 113.
Bach: The Goldberg Variations is the debut album of Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould.An interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations (BWV 988), the 1956 record launched Gould's career as a renowned international pianist, and became one of the most well-known piano recordings. [1]
Sir Donald Francis Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis [1] [2] are a series of analytical essays on classical music. The essays came into existence as programme notes , written by Tovey, to accompany concerts given (mostly under his own baton) by the Reid Orchestra in Edinburgh .
There he learned Bach's Goldberg Variations and other works. He performed them for the first time in October 1949, in Ojai, at Jiddu Krishnamurti's school, and, in 1950, along with other works, in all the capital cities of Australia, to great acclaim. He soon became regarded as one of Australia's outstanding pianists.
This is a list of commercial or professional recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, organized chronologically. The list is sortable by clicking on the small arrows at the top of each column.
Glenn Herbert Gould [fn 1] (/ ɡ uː l d /; né Gold; [fn 2] 25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. He was among the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, [1] renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.