Piano
SKU:
BR.EB-8937
Urtext. Composed
by Christoph Graupner.
Solo instruments. Edition
Breitkopf. Suite;
Baroque. Score. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 8937.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8937).
ISBN 9790004186046. 0
x 0 inches.
Given
that hardly any printed
collections of new
keyboard music were
offered in Germany in the
first decades of the 18th
century, Christoph
Graupner's eight Partien
auf das Clavier ,
published in 1718, marked
a new beginning. The
suites are arranged
according to an ascending
sequence of notes and
generally follow the
scheme Allemande -
Courante - Sarabande -
Gigue, but this order is
repeatedly broken, also
by movements that are
rather unusual for a
suite. The focus is on
the characteristics of
the individual movements
and the joy of playing
with figures typical for
the movement or
instrument, as well as on
challenging playing
techniques, such as hand
changes in runs
(passaggi), wide-ranging
chord breaks and the use
of the thumb, which was
not very common at the
time. In this respect,
Graupner's suites offer
not so much a formal
advancement, but rather
an expansion of the
demands of playing
technique. Although
several CD recordings of
these suites already
exist, this volume
constitutes the first
modern Urtext edition.
Complementing her
scholarly activities, the
editor Genevieve Soly
provides important
impulses on performance
practice in the preface,
especially on the
execution of the passaggi
and the ornamentation,
thus opening up the view
on her activity as a
harpsichordist.
Christoph-Graupner Baroque
