Beat Bach: A Cancelled Clavier Competition
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Label: Haenssler Classic
Cat No: HC22048
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 7th October 2022
Contents
Works
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004Pieces de clavecin: Book 1 (Suite in D minor)
Artists
Alexander von Heissen (harpsichord, clavichord)Works
Partita for solo violin no.2 in D minor, BWV1004Pieces de clavecin: Book 1 (Suite in D minor)
Artists
Alexander von Heissen (harpsichord, clavichord)About
The present programme refers to a piano competition between the two keyboard virtuosos and composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Louis Marchand, which is said to have taken place in Dresden in 1717.
Several sources mention this planned competition, although they all come from the German-speaking world. A total of 21 texts, dated between 1739 and 1802, mention the planned encounter between Bach and Marchand, but all of these surviving sources should be treated with caution, and many of them undoubtedly serve to glorify Bach and assert his superiority over his French challenger, who recognised this and which is why the contest is said never to have taken place.
The starting point and main source for this story is Johann Sebastian Bach personally.
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