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Bach - English Suites BWV 806-811

Johann Sebastian Bach

English Suites

BWV 816-811

For Piano (Harpsichord)

Urtext Edition

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The name “English Suites” – as with the “French Suites” – did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach’s English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one opening with a prelude in concertante style. Two of the sarabandes survive in additional versions that feature ornamentation by Bach himself; an impressive testimony to his intended virtuosic and opulent harpsichord style in these pieces. Despite the lack of autograph sources, the musical text of these works has survived extraordinarily well and reliably thanks to several contemporary manuscript copies. For this revised Urtext edition Ullrich Scheideler has undertaken an exemplary investigation of authentic variants, especially in the ornamentation. All are documented here, and made directly accessible to the player in the musical text itself.

English Suites

  1. English Suite No. 1 in A major BWV 806
  2. English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV 807
  3. English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV 808
  4. English Suite No. 4 in F major BWV 809
  5. English Suite No. 5 in E minor BWV 810
  6. English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV 811
HN595

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Product type
Printed editorial product
Publishing status
Active
Original proprietary code
HN 595
ISMN code
979-0-2018-0595-5
Publisher
G. Henle Verlag
Old editions replaced by this one
979-0-2018-0100-1 (HN 100)
Number of pages and size
144 (IX+135) - 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Peculiarities
Paperbound
Urtext Edition
Main responsibilities
Johann Sebastian Bach
Secondary responsibilities
Ekaterina Derzhavina (fing.)
Ullrich Scheideler (ed.)
Unified main title
English Suites BWV 806-811