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The typical pianist rather rarely is confronted with the wish to make a performance from all three-part inventions. In contrast to them, they are assembled into a musical whole rather than an educational one. Well, the technical difficulties are basically what you'll encounter with the three-part inventions or symphonies. The third from last bar of Var 30 really has 5 beats in it, not the 4 that are written.

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Var 30 is a half-inebriated choir in the pub after a gig or a rehearsal - or maybe a Welsh Rugby crowd in full song.

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Var 1 sounds great played by an oompah-band-style clarinet (or accordion) and tuba - plus a bit of lederhosen-slapping half way through the second half. My personal opinion is that Bach was letting his hair down a bit. None of the canons are easy, unless you have three hands to play three independent parts at the same time (or you play them on the organ and use your feet.)Īside from the technical problems, there's the challenge of figuring out "what is really going on" here. Some of the variations with mostly 16th and 32nd notes are actually the fastest in beats-per-minute. With one hand on each keyboard, either hand can play anywhere from bass to treble without collisions.Īlso, there is nothing to say every variation is at the same (slow) tempo as the Aria. The variations that are scariest technically on piano - for example the ones with lots of hand-crossing like 5, 14, 17, 23, 26(!), 29(!!!), are much easier on a double harpsichord, and this is one of the few pieces where Bach explicitly says that's what it was written for. Var 13 and 25 is another two where the notes are easy enough, but it's hard to stop it sounding like a rather boring technical exercise. The hard part is fitting in all the ornaments and getting the result to sound like you were just making it up as you go, but not turning into an incoherent mess. Yes, some of it might use 32nd notes, but look at the tempo.is it slow? Bach wrote music to serve a purpose and he never thought about what would happen to the music after he passed.

He wrote music that needed to be written. He himself was too hard-working, too industrious, and too humble to afford himself that much narcissism. JS Bach did not write music with the intention of it being hard.What will you do to make yours stand out? How will you make sure you don't miss any notes? Since it's Bach, you can bet about 1,000,000 other people have studied, performed, and recorded it very well, so you are competing with all of the other interpretations and performances.

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Much like Mozart, you can play the notes and get through it, but you really have to know how to play the notes to make it come alive, especially with Bach there are so many notes.how will you choose which ones are the most important?

One thing that makes Bach notorious (and one of the reasons why he's on almost every audition list for every instrument at every school) is because of how deceptively difficult the music is.

It's long - 30 variations and an aria is no joke it's a lot of heavy lifting.

Read here under "form" to learn a little bit more about the larger structure of the piece.

The underlying structure of the piece is incredibly carefully conceived and executed.

Many of JS Bach's works represent the highest models of their respective art forms Bach was a master of all Baroque art forms.

The work represents the highest model of Baroque theme and variations.

The work is a theme and variations, and to my knowledge there is only one other JS Bach piece that follow suit (see comments below).

Firstly, the reasons why the work is infamous: The Goldberg Variations are considered infamous / demanding for a few reasons, which I will outline briefly below. um, the really really scary Rachmaninov stuff.Īm I being superficial and ignorant (I am an amateur with little training beyond Old MacDonald Had A Farm), is this stuff deceptively simple or is there, in fact, a significant portion of them that's actually playable? Some are in fact very scary, with all the 32th notes and the > 8th leaps and whatnot, but even then they look more like good ol' fashioned keyboard shredding than. 5th looks approachable.Įven 26, 28: lots of notes, but they look like 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2. I was perusing the score and it doesn't look terribly intricate for what's possibly a majority of the variations - certainly less than Bach's 3- or 4-part works.Īria looks easy-peasy, the first variation has some fun going on with the LH and you have to work on your fingering with the RH and do some thumb-under-ing, but it doesn't look impossible, ditto for 2nd. In print, the Goldbergs (Goldberg Variations) have a quasi-legendary status, a hallmark of technical difficulty.