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Article: Notes for Notes.
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- December 1, 2001
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The Pierpont Morgan Library (J. Rigbie Turner, Mary Flagler Gary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Books) recently acquired two printed scores of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. While there can be no argument about the excellence of the music they hold, what the later score bears striking witness to is debated to this day.
In 1731, Bach published the Six Partitas for Harpsichord, BWV 825-830. They were published by Bach himself and bear the proud designation "Opus 1." (They were not, however, his first published work.) The copy of this 1731 edition acquired by the Morgan Library is sadly incomplete, containing all or parts of seventeen movements from five partitas ...
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... ... Nos. 1, 3, 4,1 6.1 French Suites: Nos. 2, 4.2 Italian Concerto. Toccata in D, BWV 913.3 Fantasia in c, BWV 906.3 Sonatas: in C, BWV 966; in D, BWV 963; in d, BWV 964. Capriccio in E, BWV 993. 4 Duetti, BWV 802-805 ...
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