Complete Piano Works

Studienausgabe

By Johann Sebastian Bach

Does anyone happily buy study scores? If you need orchestral scores Dover in full size are better than miniature scores, and often still cheaper. But keyboard scores "for study", whatever that means, could easily be sourced from the cheaper editions. Do yourself a favour, buy performance sized. Even people with...

excellent short distance vision in maturity will have problems with light and shade.

Basic research will show that Bach did not write music for the piano. He wrote music for the harpsichord which can be played on the piano but he did not write for the piano as such.Call it "keyboard music". That's fine. Don't call it "piano music" because...

that's a lie, a distortion and a gross misrepresentation of reality.

Missing some suites, sonatas and capriccios, Henle's published it. The books don't seem to last very long. Smallest print I've seen in years, and very thick. Pity that most editorial marks are in German only, but the edition itself is great. Fairly complete (except the ones mentioned...

above), this is a reliable basis for study but not for performance. For performance, get Henle.

Great collection and the most complete one there is of Bach's keyboard music! Although quite smaller in size than a performance sheet as well as containing lots of pages per book (about 750) - makes it a little uncomfortable to sight read or learn the music on the piano; nevertheless...

, it's an enormous and priceless collection that is well worth the price. A mandatory book collection to any serious scholarly piano student or a teacher.Being a doctorate student myself I find this product to be invaluable for Bach's music scholars and music lovers alike!

New Bach Edition is an excellent choice. Too many pages per volume, is not easy to manipulate then (but have a good bind, and complete Bach`s piano works in performance edition is too much expensive) The best: the most complete edition. Extensive appendices.