Bach

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19 Little Preludes from "Little Clavier Book" for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, "Six Little Preludes for Beginners" and other sources. This urtext edition is based on manuscripts and surviving manuscript copies. The fingering is provided by the editor. For intermediate students, amateurs and professional pianists.

This edition of Bach's Italian Concerto, from the second part of his "Clavier bung", includes two versions - the URTEX, based on the first publication in 1735 in Nuremberg, and edited version, in which the editor added fingerings, recommended articulations and few dynamic marks given in small print. While students usually need editor recommendations they will also benefit from referring to the original Bach's manuscript reproduced by the URTEXT.

Bach composed Two Part Inventions in K then (before 1723) for teaching purposes, particularly his eldest son Wilhelm Friedemann. The earliest copy of this work, supposedly written by Bach's own hand, is found in the Wilhelm Friedemann Clavierb chlein (Piano Notebook), started on January 22 1720. The Notebook contained two-part pieces, Preambulum, which were later named as Inventions. In Bach's copy of 1723 he prefaced the collection of Inventions and Sinfonias with these words: "Honest method, by which the amateurs of the keyboard - especially, however, those desirous of learning - are shown a clear way not only to learn to play cleanly in two parts, but also, after further progress, to handle three obligate parts correctly and well; and along with this not only to obtain good inventions (ideas) but to develop the same well; above all, however, to achieve a cantabile style in playing and at the same time acquire a strong foretaste of composition." For Intermediate students, amateurs and professionals.

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