sagespath <sagespath@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
> On May 13, 3:39 pm, "Tom Hens" <tom.h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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>> Why, pray tell? What's wrong with all other editions? Including, for
>> instance, the NBA one?
>
> I'm not familiar with the 'NBA" edition.
So you pontificate about Bach's music and what editions of it should or
shouldn't be used, but you're not familiar with the NBA?
> The title pages of most of the few Bachs works published in his
> lifetime do not "grovel".
I take it you've never read the dedication(s) in the Musical Offering,
then.
But you're right in the sense that Bach didn't publish many works, and
those that he did publish usually weren't dedicated to noble patrons,
including Clavierübung IV, hence no need for the customary groveling.
> Nobody claims that Goldberg was employed by Count Kayserling.
The story about the origins of Clavierübung IV as a supposed commission by
Keyserlingk has no source other than Forkel's book. He claims the
so-called
"Goldberg Variations" were commissioned to be played by Goldberg, who
supposedly was in Keyserlingk's employ at the time. Hence the nickname for
the work. There is no other Goldberg/Keyserlingk/Bach story around. The
story isn't true.
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