Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
    The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
    The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
    Ebook209 pages43 minutes

    The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete

    By Johann Sebastian Bach

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    "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." — Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
    This informed assessment of the genius of Bach's works can be applied with greatest accuracy to The Well-Tempered Clavier. 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.
    The grace and fecundity of The Well-Tempered Clavier 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 The Well-Tempered Clavier and his style developed a new polyphonic richness and depth of harmony. Beethoven studied all the accessible works of Bach profoundly (including The Well-Tempered Clavier) 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 The Well-Tempered Clavier in his Etudes and Preludes. It was Schumann who, in a series of maxims for young musicians, said "Make The Well-Tempered Clavier your daily bread."
    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 13, 2012
    ISBN9780486311845
    The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete
    Author

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) war ein deutscher Komponist, Kantor, Hofkapellmeister, Violinist sowie Orgel- und Cembalovirtuose des Barocks. Er gilt weltweit als einer der bekanntesten und bedeutendsten Musiker überhaupt. Insbesondere von Berufsmusikern wird er oft als der größte Komponist der Musikgeschichte angesehen. Seine Werke inspirieren musikschaffende Künstler zu zahllosen Bearbeitungen, so auch die hier vorgelegte Einrichtung von drei Konzertsuiten für Trompete solo. Bach ist ein Musiker und Komponist, der mit seiner Musik die Lebensfreude den Musikern und Zuhörern direkt vermittelt. Obwohl er in seiner Zeit die Möglichkeiten der modernen Trompete noch nicht kannte, zeigen die hier vorgelegten Solosuiten, dass seine Suiten, Sonaten und Partiten auch für moderne Trompeten geeignet sind. Bachs Universalität wird damit für die heutige Zeit neu fruchtbar. Seine Musik wird Interpreten auf der Trompete anregen, seine Impulse aufzunehmen, zu erneuern und weiter zu geben - und so für moderne Zuhörer und viele weitere Generationen zugänglich zu machen.

    Read more from Johann Sebastian Bach

    Related to The Well-Tempered Clavier

    Related ebooks

    Music For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Perfect Curve

      Nov 20, 2020

      The Perfect Curve
      8 min read

    • Article

      Second Nature

      Sep 17, 2021

      Second Nature
      6 min read

    • Article

      Which Piano Should I Buy?

      Mar 17, 2023

      Which Piano Should I Buy?
      7 min read

    • Article

      In The Beginning how To Learn A New Piece

      Nov 19, 2021

      The challenge of learning new music keeps us feeling inspired and motivated. Done efficiently, the pleasure and satisfaction gained far outweighs any patches of frustration we may face along the way. Learning how we learn best is crucial. It’s not un

      4 min read

    • Article

      Unravelling Ravel

      Aug 5, 2021

      Unravelling Ravel
      7 min read

    • Article

      Poetry In Motion creative Scale Practice

      May 20, 2022

      Scale work is an ongoing process from the relatively beginning stages of piano study through to conservatory level and beyond. The advanced pianist will have mastered all major and minor scales in single as well as double notes, plus an array of diff

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Late Bloomer

      Jan 20, 2023

      The Late Bloomer
      8 min read

    • Article

      An American Dream VAN CLIBURN

      May 20, 2022

      As American pianist Van Cliburn (1934-2013) emerged seemingly overnight from relative obscurity into worldwide fame following his triumph at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, nearly everyone wanted to claim him. The Soviets, for whom the pl

      7 min read

    • Article

      W A MOZART Romance Andante

      Mar 10, 2021

      Here we return to the work of musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with the second movement Romance (Andante) from his Serenade no.13 for Strings in G Major K525, as . I arranged the famous first movement back in GT241, but this second

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Glorious Display Of Romantic Pianism

      Sep 6, 2022

      Music by Franck, Thalberg, Liszt, Chopin, Schubert Mariam Batsashvili (piano) Warner Classics 9029629061 67:19 mins In this glorious record, Mariam Batsashvili has matched a series of Liszt’s operatic ‘paraphrases’ with transcriptions from other comp

      9 min read

    • Article

      LÉO DELIBES Coppélia Waltz

      Jun 2, 2021

      In this issue we are tackling a piece by the prolific and influential French composer of vocal, ballet and opera music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). His beguiling work was highly respected by such composers as Tchaikovsky who rated Delibes as a “greater co

      4 min read

    • Article

      Christoph Gluck Dance Of The Blessed Spirits

      Feb 12, 2020

      In this latest issue, we return to a wonderful work by the operatic composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787). Gluck was born in Bavaria, and was urged to follow his father’s profession of forester. Thankfully for the development of Western musi

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Well-Tempered Clavier

    3.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      the sheet music not well organized. Don't deserve as a paid book

    Book preview

    The Well-Tempered Clavier - Johann Sebastian Bach

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1