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Johann Philipp Kirnberger

CLAVIERÜBUNGEN
Erste Sammlung
(1761)

With complete fingerings after
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

edited by Rudolf Rasch

DP 7

Instrumentation:
harpsichord (clavichord, organ, pianoforte)

Kirnberger’s collection of progressively ordered keyboard pieces, brought together in a series of four consecutive volumes with Clavierübungen (Keyboard Exercises), is especially interesting because of the complete fingering added by Kirnberger in accordance with the system as developed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (1753; Essay on the true manner of playing the keybaord). In fact, Kirnberger’s volumes are the oldest provided with full fingerings. The first volume contains twelve menuets—the didactic form par excellence of the 18th century—, twelve polonaises and a couple of miscellaneous pieces.

1985
ISBN n/a (paper)
1 score (24 pp.)
21 x 30 cm
€13.50 or US$13.50

Contents

Introduction by Rudolf Rasch 2
Menuet 1 4
Menuet 2 4
Menuet 3 5
Menuet 4 5
Menuet 5 6
Menuet 6 6
Menuet 7 7
Menuet 8 7
Menuet 9 8
Menuet 10 8
Menuet 11 9
Menuet 12 9
Polonoise 1 10
Polonoise 2 10
Polonoise 3 11
Polonoise 4 12
Polonoise 5 12
Polonoise 6 13
Polonoise 7 14
Polonoise 8 14
Polonoise 9 15
Polonoise 10 16
Polonoise 11 16
Polonoise 12 17
Rigaudon 18
Passepied 18
Presto 19
Polonoise 13 21
Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten &c. 22