This outstanding collection brings together forty-nine of the finest keyboard works by major Italian composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. With works by Frescobaldi Scarlatti Martini and others arranged for piano solo or other keyboard instruments. The beautiful melodies flowing elegance and charm of these pieces will leave you uplifted and energised. 49 works arranged for Solo piano.

Monumenti Musicali Italiani XXIX. Par FRESCOBALDI GIROLAMO. 'Le volume est le dernier de la série des Monumenti Musicali Italiani dédiée à Frescobaldi, publiée sous les auspices de la Società Italiana di Musicologia. Il réunit l'héritage manuscrit du compositeur, centré principalement sur la musique de clavier et quelques pièces instrumentales ou vocales inédites, oeuvres authentiques ou d'attribution douteuse. Une investigation systématique dans les archives publiques et privées ainsi qu'une minutieuse enquête philologique ont permis de présenter pour la première fois des pages frescobaldiennes sans concordance ou avec des concordances partielles, inconnues ou inédites, ou des versions authentiques, mais différentes de celles connues. L'ouvrage se compose de trois volumes: l'un de Textes introductifs, divisé en sept chapitres et de nombreux paragraphes et sous-paragraphes, accompagnés d'une vaste gamme de notes explicatives, de nombreuses tables et reproductions que suit l'appareil critique : et deux volumes de Musiques totalisant presque 500 pages dans le format paysage habituel, facile pour les artistes. Un CD contenant les textes en français (intégralité) et en anglais (Préfaces) est joint au volume des Textes. Ce travail totalise plus de 1000 pages avec trois volumineux index (formes / genres, musiques aussi bien dans l'appareil critique que dans la musique), et d'abondantes illustrations en facsimile. ' / Opéra-opérette / Recueil / Piano ou Clavier

The Library Of Baroque Music is an enormously expansive collection of the greatest works produced during that prolific period that flourished between the Renaissance and Classical eras. All arranged for soloPiano this volume features works drawn from all the major Baroque composers including some of the greatest pieces of music ever composed.  The progression and development of music during the Baroqueperiod can be heard in these pieces providing you not only with a window into musical history but also many exciting additions to your repertoire. The retrospective 'Baroque' label was applied to a diverse rangeof European compositions—often combining a spirit of experimentation with elaborate new musical structures. Dominated primarily by the Harpsichord and Organ this period also saw the rise and development of larger-scale forms suchas the concerto and oratorio.  This superb volume is comprised of Keyboard and ensemble works from all the major Baroque composers arranged for Piano. Featuring Arne Boyce Buxtehude Corelli Couperin Gibbons Lully Pachelbel Purcell Rameau and Vivaldi the composers here include some of the most respected and revered figures in musical history. The Library Of Baroque Music spans compositionsof many of these masters ranging from Frescobaldi in the early 1600s to Pergolesi a century later and the famous three - J.S. Bach Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. Baroque music socalled for its ornateness was characterised by a bold exploration of counterpoint and new harmonic possibilities. This was variously expressed through the work of perhaps fifty or so major European composers. By the timeBaroque began to segue into a new Classical period around 1750 it had already irrevocably changed and expanded the possibilities of music. The works that precipitated this change are available to play in this

The Czech composer Antonin Rejcha (also Anton Reicha, 1770?1836) was famous as both an experimental composer and as a teacher and theorist. His ?36 Fugues for Piano? testify to this experimentalism; they can be seen as a type of
?Well-Tempered Piano of the new ages?, basing the traditional Baroque fugue on radical new fundaments.

The first edition of this unusual collection was produced in 1803 in Vienna by Reicha?s own publishing company ?Au Magasin de l?Imprimerie chimique?. It included both a dedication poem to Joseph Haydn and a comprehensive foreword in which Reicha identifies the characteristics of his compositional style. The second edition (Vienna 1805) included a short theoretical text ?Über das neue Fugensystem? (?On the new fugal system?) in the form of a polemic, reacting to his critics, one of whom was Beethoven. Six fugues are based on the themes of other composers (Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Frescobaldi, Handel).

The musical text is a corrected reprint of the edition by Václav Jan Sýkora from 1973, which itself was based on the referred to edition from 1805 as well as on the later edition by Tobias Haslinger (Vienna, c. 1828).

- Works historically important to the development of the fugue
- New foreword by Roman Dykast (Cz/Eng/Ger) / [36 Fugues Pour Piano] / Classique / Partition / Broché /

A fine selection of the most famous early Keyboard masterpieces for solo Piano, including works from greats such as J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Purcell, William Byrd, and Domenico Scarlatti. <br>An essential addition to your Piano library. Includes Variations on an Aria by Lully, Sarabande in D minor (from Harpsichord Suite), and Tambourin (from Pieces for Harpsichord in Three books). / Classique / Partition /