Further Reading
23rd November 2021
Following the acclaimed publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725, Edition Peters have published a new premium Urtext edition of the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 edited by world-renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.
- New Urtext Edition of the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 by Christoph Wolff
- First new Urtext Edition for 60 years
- Highest possible level of scholarship
- Follows acclaimed publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725
- Landscape format, optimal for piano and keyboard players
- Premium linen binding
- Bibliophile edition
Following the acclaimed, award-winning publication of The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725 (Best Edition 2020, German Music Publishers Association), Edition Peters is proud to present the Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1720 in a new premium Urtext edition by world-renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff.
Bach’s ‘notebooks’ provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. They contain original compositions, exercises, and model examples by other composers, all collected with a view to providing a rounded musical education to family members. The Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was compiled for Johann Sebastian’s eldest son, who himself went on to become one of the leading organists, improvisers and composers of his day. The book contains systematic exercises, first or early versions of three of Bach’s most important keyboard cycles (some of the preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Preambulums for the Two-part Inventions and Fantasias for the Three-part Sinfonias) and suites by Richter, Telemann and Stölzel among other items.
This luxury linen-bound edition with gold-embossed cover lettering is in line with the quality of the production of the much-praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach. It is produced in the original landscape format, ideal for use on a keyboard stand, and contains illustrations, premium-quality new engravings and full critical commentary.
- ISMN: 9790014127077 (M014127077)
