Description

• Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
• Editor: Valerie Woodring Goertzen (1954-)
• Fingering: Markus Bellheim
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Work: Chaconne in D Minor for the Left Hand (after Bach’s Partita, BWV 1004), Anh. 1a/1, No. 5
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201811871
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 19
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

The D Minor Chaconne is undoubtedly the most famous movement of all of Bach’s 6 Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo. So it is hardly surprising that it has seen many arrangements. Johannes Brahms marvelled at how a single staff of music could offer “a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the mightiest emotions”. He promptly made his own arrangement; it is for left hand alone, in order to come close to the restrictive framework of the original. He wrote enthusiastically: “A similar degree of difficulty, the manner of technique, the arpeggios – everything comes together to make me feel like a violinist!”