Product Description
Product Description
Experience Bachs Genius Through One of His Most Beloved Transcriptions
Bring to life Johann Sebastian Bachs celebrated Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974, a brilliant keyboard transcription of Alessandro Marcellos Oboe Concerto. This complete edition offers pianists the opportunity to explore a masterpiece that blends Venetian lyricism with Bachs contrapuntal mastery.
Why Choose This Edition?
Complete Concerto All movements presented in a faithful piano solo transcription.
Advanced Level Designed for pianists seeking a rewarding and challenging addition to their repertoire.
Performance-Ready Format Professionally engraved with Urtext Kapellmeister fonts for clarity and elegance.
Practical & Elegant 9 x 12 inches, 13 pages; ideal for concerts, competitions, or personal study.
Engraving Quality: Clear notation for comfortable reading and interpretation with Kapellmeister Urtext Music Fonts.
Historical & Musical Significance
First arranged by Bach around 1715, this concerto showcases his skill in adapting orchestral textures into a solo keyboard setting. Long attributed to Vivaldi or Benedetto Marcello, it is now recognized as Alessandro Marcellos timeless creation, transformed by Bach into a cornerstone of the Baroque repertoire.
Perfect For
Pianists preparing for recitals, competitions, or festivals
University, conservatory, and advanced private study
Teachers introducing students to Bachs transcription style
Musicians who value authentic, high-quality sheet music
Edition Details
Format: Piano Solo
Difficulty: Advanced
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Length: 13 pages
Length: 24 pages of clean, beautifully engraved sheet music + Staff pages for study
Engraving Quality: Clear notation for comfortable reading and interpretation with Kapellmeister Urtext Music Fonts.
Genres: Baroque, Classical, Contest/Festival, Instructional, Film/TV
Elevate your repertoire with this complete edition of Bachs Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, BWV 974 a true gem of Baroque expression and virtuosity.
Program Notes
The Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach's solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto, BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant of the concerto, S Z799, was written down.
Bach's keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro's brother. In the second half of the 20th century several publications indicated Alessandro again as the composer of the piece, as it had been in its early 18th-century print, and the oboe concerto was again published in its D minor version.
In the 20th and 21st centuries the concerto developed into a well-established repertoire piece, as well as an oboe concerto as performed on keyboard.
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