Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Organ Works

  • Year 1912 – 1967
  • Type Other
  • Tradition Lutheran

For For organists who want Bach's organ works with Schweitzer and Widor's performance prefaces; not a book for reading.

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The Schirmer edition of Bach's organ works that Schweitzer prepared with Widor, with performance prefaces. A score for organists, not reading.

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An edition of Bach's organ works for the American publisher G. Schirmer, prepared by Schweitzer with Charles-Marie Widor. Each volume carries a preface with general observations on how the works should be performed, drawing on the views of Bach's music Schweitzer set out in his Bach books. The first volumes appeared in 1912 and 1913; the series was left unfinished for decades and completed only in 1954 and 1967. It is a musical edition rather than a book of prose, and it is catalogued here for completeness.

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