List of keyboard exercises

Johann Kuhnau - portrait from the title page of his new keyboard exercise

Title page of the first partita, printed in 1726 by Balthasar Schmid in Nuremberg

Johann Sebastian Bach's Clavier-Exercise III (“Third part / the / Clavier exercise / consisting of / in / various auditions / about the / catechism and other chants, / in front of the organ: / For lovers, and especially those who are experts / of the same work , zur Gemüths Ergezung / made by / Johann Sebastian Bach, / Koenigl. Pohlnischen, and Churfürstl. Saechs. / Hoff-Compositeur Capellmeister, and / Director Chori Musici in Leipzig. / Published by the Author. ")

Title page of the first edition of the fourth part of Bach's Keyboard exercise , with today as the Goldberg Variations known work

Busoni: piano exercise in ten books

This is a list of keyboard exercises ; H. of works published under the title “Clavier-Exercise”, which is not to be equated with pure “piano etudes” (i.e., etudes for piano ). A keyboard exercise (also in the spelling clavier exercise or "clavier exercise" etc., in the more modern notation: piano exercise) is an exercise for keyboard instruments. The term “clavier” is a collective term for keyboard instruments of all kinds and also referred to the keyboard in a narrower sense, as can be seen from playing instructions such as “à 2 clav. e Pedals ”(that is, to be performed on two manuals and pedal). It was a commonly used title for various musical collections for keyboard instruments in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The name was probably first used by Johann Kuhnau in 1689. Nowadays, the term is mainly associated with the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (see the main article, keyboard exercise ).

Overview

The following composers published works under the title Clavier-Exercise:

• Johann Sebastian Bach :
  • Clavier-Exercise I : six partitas, published separately 1726–1730, then compiled into one volume in 1731
  • Keyboard Exercise II : Italian Concerto (BWV 971) and French Style Overture (BWV 831) (1735)
  • Clavier-Exercise III : also known as the German Organ Mass (1739)
  • Piano Exercise IV : Aria with Various Variations , known as the Goldberg Variations (1741)
• Ferruccio Busoni
  • Piano exercise (1918–1925)
• Christoph Graupner :
  • Easy keyboard exercises (approx. 1730)
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
  • Keyboard exercise, consisting of various preludes and changes to some church chants (Nuremberg, JU Haffner, approx. 1744)
  • Keyboard exercise consists of a suite [...] in Zweyter Theil (Nuremberg, JU Haffner, approx. 1744)
  • Keyboard exercise consisting of six sonatinas ... Part III (Nuremberg, JU Haffner, approx. 1744)
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger
  • Keyboard exercises, with the Bach application , four volumes, 1761–1766
• Johann Krieger
  • Graceful Piano Exercise (1698)
• Johann Kuhnau :
  • New keyboard exercise, first part (1689) digitized
  • New keyboard exercise, Andrer Theil (1692)
• Vincent Lübeck
  • Piano Exercise (1728)
• Georg Andreas Sorge
  • Clavier exercise in three parts, 18 sonatas for harpsichord (1738 – c.1745)
  • Clavier exercise in two parts, 24 Praeludia for organ or clavichord (1739–42)

various

Johann Sigismund Scholze alias Sperontes published a collection of songs “Sperontes, the singing muse on the Pleisse” in two times 50 odes, the latest and greatest musical pieces with the associated melodies for popular piano exercises and idolatry. Along with an appendix from JC Günther's poems. Leipzig. At the expense of the merry company 1736 ”.

See also

• keyboard

References and footnotes

1. ↑ cf. Kuhnau, Johann (1660-1722). [NEW CLAVIER EXERCISE FIRST PART. COMPOSED IN SEVEN PARTS OF THE UT, RE, MI OR TERTIA MAJORE OF EACH TONE. LEIPZIG: [PAR L'AUTEUR 1689].] Or digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
2. ↑ Chr. Wollf, p.190 .

literature

• Christoph Wolff : Bach: Essays on His Life and Music. Harvard University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-674-05926-3 , "Chapter 15: The Clavier-Exercise Series"

Web links

Commons : Piano Exercise  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Johann Kuhnau Part V in G major (sound sample)