SKU: HL.338219

ISBN 9781540089021. UPC: 840126913378. 9.0x12.0x0.225 inches.

The Classical Piano Sheet Music Series includes compilations of intermediate level pieces, with an easy-to-use coil binding so the music lays flat, ensuring smooth page turns. Includes: ANONYMOUS: Minuet in C minor, BWV Appendix 121 • Minuet in D minor, BWV Appendix 132 • Minuet in G Major, BWV Appendix 116 • Musettein D Major, BWV Appendix 126 CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: March in D Major, BWV Appendix 122 • March in G Major, BWV Appendix 124 • Solfegietto in C minor, H. 220 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772 • Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773 • Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775 • Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 • Prelude in C Major, BWV 924 • Prelude in C Major, BWV 939 • Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 • Prelude in D minor, BWV 926 WILHELM FRIEDMANN BACH: Allegro in A Major JOHN BLOW: Courante in C Major • Prelude in C Major ARCANGELO CORELLI: Gavotta in F Major FRANCOIS COUPERIN: Benevolent Cuckoos Under Yellow Dominos • Berceuse JEAN-FRANCOIS DANDRIEU: Lament LOUISE-CLAUDE DAQUIN: The Cuckoo GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Courante in G Major • Minuet in F Major • Rigaudon in G Major • Sarabande, HWV 437 JOHANN PACHELBEL: Sarabande in B-flat Major CHRISTIAN PETZOLD: Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 • Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115 HENRY PURCELL: Suite No. 1 in G Major JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU: Tambourin ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI: Aria in D minor DOMENICO SCARLATTI: Minuet from Sonata in C Major, L. 217 (K. 73b, P. 80) • Sonata in A Major, L. 483 (K. 322, P. 360) • Sonata in A minor, L. 378 (K. 3) • Sonata in D minor, L. 423 (K. 32, P. 14) • Sonata in G Major, L. 79 (K. 391, P. 364) GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: Dance in G Major.

SKU: BR.DV-9515-01

ISBN 9790200490596. 9 x 12 inches. German / English.

In the latter half of the 18th and in the 19th century the Old Preface Testament Christmas prophecy (Isaiah 9, 1-6) formed the basis for numerous motetto- and cantata-like compositions originating from the Erzgebirge and the Vogtland of Saxony. From very early times, this text was included in Matins for Christmas day, hut until the period specified it was usually intoned on a reciting note. The present cantata is one of the few surviving testimonies to musical activity in the small Thuringian town of Schleiz. The prophecy Das Volk, so im Finstern wandelt was written - probably for performance at court services - in all likelihood by Johann Georg Reichard, a magistrate in the Grafschaft (County) of Reuss who later held higher judicial appointments. Reichard was born at Oels (Olefoica) in Silesia in 1710 and studied law at Leipzig from 1732. He then went to Schleiz and rose from the position of archivist to high legal office, at the same time succeeding Gottfried Siegmund Liebich (d. 1736) as director of the court chapel. He died in Schleiz on 2 June 1782. A few of his church cantatas and other pieces (serenades etc) written for the court at Schleiz once belonged to the Fursten- and Landesschule of St Augustine at Grimma whose music holdings are now preserved in Dresden. Some of Reichard's compositions are autograph, some in copies made by his son Heinrich Gottfried Reichard (1742-1801) who pursued an active career at Grimma both in music and ancient philology, first as cantor, finally as co-rector. The 'Prophecy' cantata survives anonymously in a score copied by Heinrich Gottfried Reichard who may well have sung it himself when he was fourteen, before bis voice broke - as the date Anno 17 56 suggests. He probably prepared the score in bis later years from the original parts, now no langer existent, as he did in the case of other works of his father's. Whether he revised the musical text, and to what extent, cannot now be established. This short and attractive work has all the lightness and exuberance of the rococo as well as genuine emotional depth. In addition, it is easy to perform and should prove very popular. Liturgically, it still occupies a place in Christmas matins or vespers. Permission for this publication was kindly given by Dr. Wolfgang Reich of the Sachsische Landesbibliothek Dresden, Musikabteilung. Wolfram Steude, Dresden, January 1972.