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Bach, Johann Sebastian: French Suites BWV 812╩817

Edition without fingering

sheet music

Setting: Piano
Period: Baroque
Length: 104 pages
Weight: 0.407 kg
Published: 2017
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1593
Other reference: HN 1593
ISMN: 9790201815930
Johann Sebastian Bach’s three great cycles of suites belong to the fundamental canon of piano literature: the Partitas and the so-called English and French Suites. It is the French Suites that have long been by far the most popular ╩ and this was also the case at the time that they were written. However, this also creates problems for an editor preparing an Urtext edition, because a vast number of copies of them were made by Bach’s circle of pupils, and these contain many presumably authentic va
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