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Topic: Hardest Bach piece  (Read 2864 times)

Offline firediscovery

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Hardest Bach piece
on: December 05, 2008, 08:30:34 PM
What is the most difficult/challenging work by J.S. Bach for SOLO PIANO? The work can be anything from a suite/partita, to the Well Tempered Klavier, to the Goldberg Variations. What is the overall most challenging piece? Please discuss it and explain why you believe it to be the most difficult piece.

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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 03:43:38 AM
Notebook for Anna Magdalena
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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #2 on: December 06, 2008, 09:15:42 AM
LOL !

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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #3 on: December 06, 2008, 09:22:03 AM
Notebook for Anna Magdalena

I think you have a point there. The firsts were always the hardest for me. Whether it was first minuet or invention. Then everything gets easier.
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Offline healdie

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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #4 on: December 06, 2008, 04:01:45 PM
does it matter?
"Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit, Genius is hitting a target no one else can see"

A. Schopenhauer

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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #5 on: December 06, 2008, 07:09:22 PM
toccata in c minor or f sharp minor are hard bach pieces
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Re: Hardest Bach piece
Reply #6 on: December 07, 2008, 10:01:22 PM
easily the goldberg variations
"My advice to young musicians: Quit music! There is no choice. It has to be a calling, and even if it is and you think there's a choice, there is no choice"-Vladimir Feltsman
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