Bach's music was considered old-fashioned in his own time, even by his sons, but later generations recognized his greatness and timelessness.
Interpretation
On this recording, Niklas Sivelöv performs Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias in their original key order from the 1720/21 Clavier-Büchlein, which begins and returns to C.
Compositional Technique
The Clavier-Büchlein, a collection of keyboard pieces by Bach, was intended to teach clean playing in two and three voices, a cantabile style, and the art of composing.
Compositional Technique
The Prelude BWV 999, claimed to be in C minor, is mostly in G minor and unusually ends in G major, with its final chord being an incomplete quarter-note, suggesting it might be unfinished.
Composition History
Bach began his Clavier-Büchlein (Little Keyboard Book) in 1720 for his nine-year-old son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, as a guide for keyboard technique and composition.
Instruments
Bach's Prelude BWV 999, though well-known to piano students, was originally written for the lute or possibly a Lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord), an instrument Bach owned two of.
Composition History
Some musicologists believe that some of the preludes in Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's Clavier-Büchlein may have been composed by Wilhelm Friedemann himself, rather than his father J.S. Bach.
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