Johann Sebastian Bach

With the new Urtext Primo series, Wiener Urtext Edition intends to bridge the gap between studying a piano method and taking additional lessons. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 is considered one of the most important works in music history and the composer's "opus ultimum". In this monumental setting of the complete Catholic Or...

The present collection contains the composer's Bach transcriptions for piano four hands written since the publication of his volume of 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach'. These were originall...

Internationally renowned Croatian cellist Valter Despalj (1947) is professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music, editor and arranger of cello music with major music publishers, and jury member at the most...

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The 'Goldberg' Variations are without a doubt the most important piano cycle of the 18th century. Only Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations from the 19th century can be compared to them as far their far-...

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

The small Preludes and Fugues, as they are not unjustly entitled, reveal with their various differences of quality and origin the didactic side of Bach. Both the early works, i. e. Bach's own studies,...

J. S. Bach (1685-1750) schrieb mehrere Solowerke ohne Begleitung, wie z. B. die sechs Suiten für Cello und diverse Partitas und Sonaten für Flöre und Violine. Frits Damrow bearbeitete 22 solcher Solos...

Four become one? What initially sounds like an impossible task (especially as the string ensemble still has to be counted as "five") turns out to be a stroke of luck for the organ literature in the ca...

This edition continues the series of György Kurtág's Bach transcriptions for piano duet which were published in 'Transcriptions from Machaut to J. S. Bach' and 'Seven Bach Chorales'. These pieces were...

Later Version of the Original Print

The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Tempered Clavi...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

Revised edition replaces HN 64. Fingering: Michael Schneidt Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach hims...

Johann Sebastian Bach's three great cycles of suites belong to the fundamental canon of piano literature: the Partitas and the so-called English and French Suites. It is the French Suites that have lo...

For piano solo

The three sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord obbligato by Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 1027-1029 edited here both in the original version with viola da gamba and in a version with viola have been...

The four Bach flute sonatas presented in this volume offer a genuine variety both in style and transmission. The first two are thoroughbass sonatas conceived for flute, string bass and harpsichord. Th...

It is now possible to add the epithet'previously' to the formulation of these sonatas as 'attributed to Bach' in the title of our Urtext edition; today it is assumed that none of the three sonatas was...

Sheep May Safely Graze comes from Cantata No. 208 and was originally scored for solo voice, two flutes and continuo. The pastoral subject is clearly illustrated with the two flutes playing in thirds a...

Sheet music for organ: 8 little preludes and fugues BWV 553-560 (authorship by J. S. Bach doubtful).