Partitions classiques de Johann Sebastian Bach

In this volume with the Toccatas (and Fugues) as well as individual works the Swiss organist Jean-Claude Zehnder has amply proven his mettle as a Bach specialist here. Of particular interest in this b...

Genres such as sonata, trio and concerto were initially uncommon in the keyboard music of the early 18th century. Thus it comes as no surprise that many of the pieces in this volume are arrangements b...

Volume 6 contains the three collections that Bach himself took to the printer: the Dritter Teil der Clavier-Übung was published in 1739; the Sechs Choräle von verschiedener Art ('Schübler-Choräle') an...

The basic repertoire of the 45 choral preludes of the Orgelbüchlein is hard to get by for any organist. Edited by Sven Hiemke, the volume offers the best possible prerequisites for everyday use. The m...

Volume 8 presents the work group called the 'Leipziger Choräle.' Next to the late versions compiled and entered by Bach himself in the manuscript 'P 271', all of the early versions with their sometime...

The now-published volumes 9 and 10 have presented a special challenge, for particularly in the field of the chorale arrangements the transmissions are more complex than in any other group of works. Th...

The now-published volumes 9 and 10 have presented a special challenge, for particularly in the field of the chorale arrangements the transmissions are more complex than in any other group of works. Th...

Johann Sebastian Bach's complete organ works will be published divided into eleven volumes. Substantial and musically relevant deviations between the various sources are included as footnotes leaving...

Urtext

Ce célèbre ensemble de préludes de choral doit son nom à la candidature de J.S. Bach pour le poste du Cantor à St. Thomas de Leipzig en 1723. N'ayant pas un diplôme académique, Bach tenta de prouver s...

Bach's towering musical achievement was to present in its final shape, the 'fabric of polyhony' (Grove Dictionary). This is no more axiomatic than in his Preludes and Fugues for Organ. Regarded as the...

The major works: Six 'Trio Sonatas', 'Das Orgelbuchlein', six 'Schubler Chorales', 18 'Chorale Preludes' and others. Bach-Gesellschaft edition.