Baerenreiter Verlag

First Part of the Clavier Ubung

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Editor: Richard Douglas Jones
Fingerings: Ragna Schirmer
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach's Six Partitas BWV 825830 represent the pinnacle of his keyboard suites. In the search for the greatest variety of stylistic and compositional techniques, the collection shows itself to have the status of a 'musical art book'. In keeping with this, Bach had these most prestigious works printed at his own expense as Part I of the 'Clavier Ubung'.

This expanded edition takes into consideration not only the revised main text of the Six Partitas but also, for the first time evaluates printed copies known to have been used by Bach and his closest circle and copies made by his circle of pupils. These include annotations on ornamentation and valuable hints on performance practice which are invaluable for present-day musicians. This is the first extensive edition to take all existing sources into account. The editor is the British musicologist Richard Douglas Jones, well-known for his numerous discoveries and publications on Bach.

Bach's Six Partitas are also published in an edition without fingerings.

• Urtext from the "New Bach Edition"
• Extensive edition of Bach's keyboard partitas with numerous facsimiles
• Information on playing technique from Bach's circle of pupils
• Preface (Ger/Eng) on the composition of the work, performance practice and sources
• Also available in an edition without fingerings

Contents:

• Preface/ Notes on Fingering
• Facsimile: Separate print (1726) of Partita 1, title page
• Facsimile: Separate print (1727) of Partita 2, title page
• Facsimile: Original print of 1731, title page
• Facsimile: Table of ornaments in Bach's hand
• Facsimile: Original print of 1731, Sarabande from Partita 3
• Facsimile: Original print of 1731, opening of Partita 5
• Partita 1, BWV 825
• Partita 2, BWV 823
• Partita 3, BWV 827
• Partita 4, BWV 828
• Partita 5, BWV 829
• Partita 6, BWV 830
• Appendix I - Ornamented versions:
  • Partita 1, Sarabande, BWV 825-4, According to source G 26
  • Partita 1, Menuet 2, BWV 825-6, According to source G 26
  • Partita 2, Sinfonia, BWV 826-1, According to source H 20
  • Partita 2, BWV 826, According to sources G 25, 26 and 28
  • Facsimile: Sinfonia, bb. 17-30, from the original print of 1731 (source G 25)
  • Partita 4, Courante, BWV 828-3, According to source G 26
  • Partita 5, Sarabande, BWV 829-4, According to sources G 26 und H 20
• Appendix II:
  • Partita 3, Gigue, BWV 827-7, Variant version according to source G 25
  • Facsimile: Gigue, bb. 25-50, from the original print of 1731 (source G 25)
• Annotations to the music text