Bach concerto transcriptions
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Why Concerto transcriptions?Why Concerto transcriptions?
“He was attracted to the rational tonal design and ritornello organization of the concerto that enabled the creation of unified, continuous instrumental movements on a hitherto unprecedented scale, avoiding, on the one hand, the tonal monotony and short-breathed sectionalism of, say, the variation set or the passacaglia, and on the other, the tendency, observable at times in the early toccatas –and even the early fugues- toward excessive variety and contrast at the cost of any sense of a compelling underlying unity.”
-Robert L. Marshall, Eighteenth Century Keyboard Music
Bach in WeimarBach in WeimarOrganistOrganist
1708-1717
Access to ConcertosAccess to ConcertosJohann Ernst: Prince of Weimar
Concerto XVI, Arrangement of Prince Johann Ernst’s Concerto Op.1 No.4
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