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Exact dates (e.g. for most cantatas) usually indicate the assumed date of first (public) performance. When the date is followed by an abbreviation in brackets (e.g. JSB for Johann Sebastian Bach) it indicates the date of that person's involvement with the composition as composer, scribe or publisher. 4 Name
The Prelude in F minor of The Well-Tempered Clavier book 1, in the BGA known as Vol. 14, p. 44, over eighty years before it was given the number 857 in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis. In the 2nd half of the 19th century the Bach-Gesellschaft (BG) published all Bach's works in around 50 volumes, the so-called Bach Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA). [3]
The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys.. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.
The Toccatas for Keyboard, BWV 910–916, are seven pieces for clavier written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although the pieces were not originally organized into a collection by Bach himself (as were most of his other keyboard works, such as the Well Tempered Clavier and the English Suites), the pieces share many similarities, and are frequently ...
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach The Partita for keyboard No. 2 in C minor , BWV 826, is a suite of six movements written for the harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was announced in 1727, [ 1 ] issued individually, and then published as Bach's Clavier-Übung I in 1731.
Alexander Siloti made many piano transcriptions of Bach, most famously his Prelude in B minor based on Bach's Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a. Andrés Segovia was famous for his playing arrangements of Bach works transcribed for classical guitar, such as his very difficult Chaconne from the Violin Partita in D minor.
W C48 \ Concertante for piano, oboe, violin & cello in B-flat major W C49 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No.1 in B-flat major W C50 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No.2 in A major W C51 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No.3 in F major W C52 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No.4 in G major W C53 \ Keyboard Concerto Op. 1 No.5 in C major