fingering solutions

[dymaxian]

Greetings! I've been lurking here for a few months now, while I dust off my rusty piano technique from over 20 years ago... you have all been a great help. Up to this point, I haven't had any specific questions that haven't already been answered at some point- so there hasn't been anything for me to post.  Here's whats going on now:

My daughter has chosen Bach's Flute Sonata in Eb Major for her solo piece in school this year. And while there are a good number of seasoned accompanists in our area, I'm going to try to learn the accompaniment.  I took over a decade of piano lessons in my youth, and have been playing music in one form or another all my life (currently 38).  My current technical skill level is my biggest hurdle, so I'm spending a lot of time with Bach's Two-Part Inventions and Well-Tempered Clavier... and yes, a lot of time with Hanon. I'm about at the point that I'm nearly ready to shift the bulk of my technique work to Bach, and this Sonata hopefully will fit in nicely.

However, I'm a bit spoiled by the fingerings I've been spoon-fed to this point, and have little practice at figuring out fingerings for myself.  So for the short run, does anyone know if there's a published version of this with suggested fingering? And for the long run, where can I read up on fingering guidelines? I've been trying to come up with a fingering pattern for the sonata myself, but it seems very awkward- I'm rolling the thumb under and changing positions a LOT. Then again, Bach was reportedly pretty suave with a keyboard, so perhaps I just need to get better at it.  I did find a couple posts from way, way back that talked about this, but the only solid advice I picked out of them was "try to keep the thumb off of black notes when you can".  There were a couple that linked to websites off this forum, but the links were all dead.  When I've figured out fingerings for other instruments, I often discovered that, while the composers were very talented, they still found what I call a "path of least resistance" that made a difficult passage a lot easier to play than it sounds. That's what I'm hoping to find for this piece.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Chris "Kase" Villand

[49410enrique]

hmm i'll check around but normally fingering solutions are only really provided for 'student' edition or in some cases a few spots in henle versions. since 'student's ' do not normally accompany (i mean students in the primary grades not advanced music students, etc), and i doubt there is such a thing out there but i will look around as it would be nice to know.

the only series along the lines of what you are asking about is only for violin and cello works (and even then just the most often performed by students/i.e. teaching standards). and they are not so much 'fingering' provided works as they are just simple versions (and manytimes better than the standard reductions as they tend to make more sense from a pianist perspective, and the collaborative musician is always free to 'spruce' it up as they please)

https://www.frustratedaccompanist.com/