Bach : Inventions & Sinfonias

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Bach wrote these thirty Two-Part and Three-Part Inventions for didactic purposes, namely the musical instruction of his own sons.

In these short Inventions and Sinfonias, Johann Sebastian Bach demonstrates his talent both as a pedagogue and as a deeply artistic composer of the Baroque era.

Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias remain as of today one of the groundworks of piano teaching.

The title page of the Autograph of 1723 bears the following mention (in Bach's own handwriting) :

Sincere Instruction,

in which lovers of keyboard music, and especially those desiring to learn to play, are shown a clear way not only (1) to learn to play cleanly in two parts, but also after further progress (2) to proceed correctly and well with three obbligato parts, and at the same time not only to compose good inventions, but to develop them well; but most of all to achieve a cantabile style in playing, and to acquire a taste for the elements of composition.

Prepared by Joh. Seb. Bach,
Chapel Master to His Serene Highness,
the Prince of Anhalt-Cöthen.
The Year of our Lord : 1723.

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Title : Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801
Subtitle : 15 Two-Part and 15 Three-Part Inventions
Composer : Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Catalog : BWV 772-801
Style : Baroque
Composed/published : ca 1720, rev. 1723
Original instrumentation : Piano

Sources : Johann Sebastian Bach, Inventions and Sinfonias (1723).
An earlier version exists in the Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach] (1720).

Catalogue	Title	Key	Instrumentation
BWV 772	Invention 1, BWV 772 ♥	C Major	Guitar
BWV 772	Invention 1, BWV 772 -- Urtext ♥	C Major	Piano
BWV 773	Invention 2, BWV 773 -- Urtext	C minor	Piano
BWV 774	Invention 3, BWV 774 -- Urtext	D Major	Piano
BWV 775	Invention 4, BWV 775 -- Urtext ♥	D minor	Piano
BWV 776	Invention 5, BWV 776 -- Urtext	E flat Major	Piano
BWV 777	Invention 6, BWV 777 -- Urtext	E Major	Piano
BWV 778	Invention 7, BWV 778 -- Urtext	E minor	Piano
BWV 779	Invention 8, BWV 779 -- Urtext ♥	F Major	Piano
BWV 780	Invention 9, BWV 780 -- Urtext	F minor	Piano
BWV 781	Invention 10, BWV 781 -- Urtext	G Major	Piano
BWV 782	Invention 11, BWV 782 -- Urtext	G minor	Piano
BWV 783	Invention 12, BWV 783 -- Urtext	A Major	Piano
BWV 784	Invention 13, BWV 784 ♥	A minor	Guitar
BWV 784	Invention 13, BWV 784 -- Urtext ♥	A minor	Piano
BWV 785	Invention 14, BWV 785 -- Urtext	B flat Major	Piano
BWV 786	Invention 15, BWV 786 -- Urtext	B minor	Piano

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