Classical sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach

Apart from the major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations...

Bach's death meant that the Art of Fugue was left unfinished. In his father's manuscriptCarl Philipp Emanuel noted exactly where the last fugue of the Art of Fugue broke off: 'While working on this fu...

Revised edition replaces HN65. Fingering: Michael Schneidt Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach himse...

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...

The epithet "English Suites" - as with the "French Suites" - did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one op...

Apart from various insignificant emendations relating to accidentals and ornamentation, this 1997 revision of Bach's Welltempered Clavier contains a remarkable correction in the musical text of the B...

The 1725 Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach is chiefly famous for pieces such as the two minuets in G major and G minor (Nos. 4 and 5 in the present collection) and the Aria di Giovannini. These three, i...

The 'Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen vors Clavicimbal' was given its common title 'Goldberg Variations' by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in turn relied on reports from Bach's elder sons, because it...

This collection contains 12 selections (from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach, French Suites Nos. 2 & 4, and Six Little Preludes), transcribed by Frederick Zimmermann for double bass with piano acc...

2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones & Organ 2 Trumpets, Horn & Trombone 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone & Piano (Organ) 2 Trumpets, Trombone & Euphonium 2 Trumpets, Trombone & Tuba

Da J.S.Bach selbst keinerlei Solosonaten für Blockflöte geschrieben hat, wurde die vorliegende Bearbeitung vorgenommen, um weit fortgeschrittenen Blockflötenspielern auf diese Weise mit den Flötensona...

Bei Komponisten aller Epochen ist und war es beliebt, Vogelstimmen musikalisch zu imitieren; und welche Instrumente sind wohl geeigneter, ihr Zwitschern, Trillern oder Pfeifen nachzuahmen, als Flöten?...

Air, Gavotte 1 & 2, Bourrée, Gigue

It is unfortunate for devotees of the recorder that J. S. Bach wrote no original compositions for the instrument - except the obbligato parts in the Brandenburg Concertos and in a few of the cantatas....

Exakte Transposition der Querflötensonate in A-Dur

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the present short, three-voice pieces for cembalo. Minuet BWV 929 comes from the collection entitled Small Preludes and Fughettas and was probably written as teaching mater...

Bach’s Six Suites for Violoncello solo are among the highlights of eighteenth-century solo string literature. From early on, these pieces have also been performed on the viola – a practice that still...

J. S. Bach's three gamba sonatas belong among the core repertoire of this low string instrument. They hark back to other works of his that were originally for different performing forces. What they al...