BACH - FRENCH SUITES BWV 812-817 Export and creative applications of theory

and creative applications of theory concepts through writing

as edited by Ernst Herttrich and fingered by Hans-Martin Theopold

whose carefully-devised fingerings will guide players securely through the cosmos of Bach's English Suites

Designed for the teenager or transfer student

Medium to Advanced levels

BACH - FRENCH SUITES BWV 812-817 Export and creative applications of theoryJohann Sebastian Bachs three great cycles of suites belong to the fundamental canon of piano literature: the Partitas and the so called English and French Suites. It is the French Suites that have long been by far the most popular and this was also the case at the time that they were written. However, this also creates problems for an editor preparing an Urtext edition, because a vast number of copies of them were made by Bachs circle of pupils, and