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Title: Barroque keyboard music that isn´t Bach
Post by: jpgm9919 on August 03, 2015, 09:31:37 AM

I have been playing piano for some years, but I never played any work from the Barroque that isn´t Bach. I know that there isn´t much choice, even thought there are Scarlatti Sonatas, or even Carlos de Seixas toccatas(that is from my country Portugal).
The ideal choice would be Seixas, but, I have seen the sheets that there avaiable at IMSLP, and I haven´t found any that is more less the dificulty of the WTC.  https://imslp.org/wiki/12_Toccatas_for_Harpsichord_(Seixas,_Carlos)
https://imslp.org/wiki/45_Toccatas_for_Harpsichord_(Seixas,_Carlos)
If anyone could help me with this i would be glad, but if not, if you could sugest any other work from this period, that is as hard as a Prelude and Fugue from the WTC.
(It can be transcriptions form concertos, overtures, and things like that).

Title: Re: Barroque keyboard music that isn´t Bach
Post by: visitor on August 03, 2015, 10:46:23 AM

Um. There are volumes and loads of stuff
Handel
Couperin
Rameau

Title: Re: Barroque keyboard music that isn´t Bach
Post by: josh93248 on August 03, 2015, 02:34:00 PM

Even though you already know of him I think Scarlatti is great so maybe you should just go for him.

To add a few more names to check out:

Lully
Purcell
Kuhnau (I think that's how it's spelt)

I'm not a huge baroque fan but I wish you luck finding something you like.

Title: Re: Barroque keyboard music that isn´t Bach
Post by: brogers70 on August 04, 2015, 05:22:03 PM

Antonio Soler, late Baroque to early classical, but he sounds pretty Baroque to me.