Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann 1720

Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) Editor: Christoph Wolff Instrumentation: Piano Binding: Hardcover ISMN: 9790014127077 Size: 10.8 x 7.7 inches Pages: 148 Urtext / Critical Edition PDF Preview Description 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 su