Bach and the Pedal Clavichord

"At the heart of Bach and the Pedal Clavichord: An Organist's Guide are some extraordinary recent experiments from the Goteborg Organ Art Center (GOArt) at Goteberg University. The Johann David Gerstenberg pedal clavichord from 1766, now in the Leipzig University museum, was documented and reconstructed; the new copy was then used for several years as a living instrument for organ students and teachers to experience. On the basis of these experiments and experiences, the book explores, in new and artful ways, Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard technique, a technique preserved by his first biographer, J.N. Forkel (1802), and by Forkel's own student, Griepenkerl. It also sifts and weighs the assumptions and claims made for and against the clavichord and pedal clavichord over two and a half centuries: by Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, by such noted Bach scholars as Walter Emery and Robert Marshall, and by sharp-eared music lovers, including one of the most perceptive (and one of the few from his era to have actually encountered a clavichord and recognized its unique qualities), George Bernard Shaw."--Jacket.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

University of Rochester Press

Editions

3

Pages

280

ISBN

9781580461351

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