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J.S. Bach. Two early editions: Fantaisie pour le Clavecin, No.I [BWV 906] & Chromatische Fantasie BWV 903

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December 13, 11:03 AM GMT

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Johann Sebastian Bach


Two early editions of the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906, & the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903, 1819


1) Fantaisie pour le Clavecin, No I [BWV 906], Leipzig: chez A. Kühnel Bureau de Musique, [c.1817] [Hoboken, i 105; RISM BB 518], 4 pages, plate number 137


2) Chromatische Fantasie für das Pianoforte...Neue Ausgabe mit einer Bezeichnung ihres wahren Vortrags, wie derselbe von J.S. Bach auf W. Friedemann Bach, von diesem auf Forkel und von Forkel auf seine Schüler gekommen [BWV 903], Leipzig: Bureau de Musique, [1819], [Hoboken, i 104; RISM BB 516], 15 pages, plate numbers 1512 and 74  


bound together with: A.E. Müller, Trois Grands Caprices. op.31 & 34, Leipzig: Kühnel; and two manuscript copies of the last movement of Bach's Partita No.1 in B flat and the Solfeggio in C minor by C.P.E. Bach [possibly late C18th]


5 volumes in one, oblong 4to (c.23.5 x 33cm), engraved music, ownership inscriptions to flyleaf ("(Lichtenstein) Ernst Rudorff 1894"), nineteenth-century boards

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