Piano - intermediate
SKU: BT.EMBZ15079
The Bartók
Performing
Editions-Instruktive
Ausgaben von Béla
Bártok. Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
EMB Music of Bela Bartok.
Tuition. Book Only.
Composed 2019. 148 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#EMBZ15079. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ15079).
English-German.
Bach's Wohltemperiertes
Klavier was Bartók's
first instructional
publication, divided into
four books. Bartók
became a professor of
piano at the Budapest
Music Academy in 1907,
and it was probably in
this capacity that he was
entrusted with preparing
a Hungarian edition of
the set of pieces. His
basic idea was that
students learning
independently without
adequate guidance should
receive sufficient
directions from the music
to perform the works. As
a consequence Bartók's
score is deliberately
over-detailed.For
pedagogical reasons the
composer ignored the
original order of pieces,
and compiled the material
according to grades of
difficulty, dividing it
into four books.
Thepresent edition
presents the Bartók
Wohltemperiertes Klavier
in two volumes, each
containing two books. One
interesting feature of
the Bartók edition is
that two of the fugues in
both book III and book IV
are written out in full
score, to accustom the
pupil to score-reading.
For some pieces he
deliberately refrained
from providing
performance indications,
to give pianists an
opportunity to exercise
their creativity.The
current edition is not a
reprint: errors we know
of have been corrected,
and the layout of the
score has been
re-arranged keeping in
mind the need to turn
pages. This edition which
includes Bartók's
detailed comments is
complemented by
facsimiles of Bach's
manuscript and an
afterword by László
Somfai.