Baerenreiter Verlag

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editor: Siebe Henstra
Transcribed: Gustav Leonhardt
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Harpsichord or Piano

• Informative Foreword by early music specialist Skip Sempe (Ger/Eng)
• Editorial notes by the editor Siebe Henstra

"I think Bach would have forgiven me for embarking on these transcriptions. Whether he would have forgiven the way I did it is, of course, another matter." (Gustav Leonhardt)

The harpsichordist, conductor and organist Gustav Leonhardt was considered a pioneer of historical performance practice. Between 1968 and 1978 he made harpsichord transcriptions of several of Bach's compositions for unaccompanied violin or violoncello. Now these transcriptions are being made available to us by his pupil, the famed harpsichordist Siebe Henstra, based on the handwritten notes that Leonhardt used for his own performances.

Contents:

• Preface
• Editorial Commentary
• Sonata in D minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Sonata for Violin G minor)
• Partita in E minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Partita for Violin B minor)
• Partita in G minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Partita for Violin D minor)
• Sonata in G major (Transcribed for harpsichord after Sonata for Violin C major)
• Partita in A major (Transcribed for harpsichord after Partita for Violin E major)
• Suite in E-flat major (Transcribed for harpsichord after Suite for Violoncello E-flat major)
• Suite in C minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Suite for Violoncello C minor)
• Suite in D major (Transcribed for harpsichord after Suite for Violoncello D major)
• Allemande in A minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Allemande from Partita for Flute A minor)
• Sarabande in C minor (Transcribed for harpsichord after Sarabande from Suite for Lute C minor)