FERRUCCIO BUSONI

Chaconne from Partita no. 2 d minor (Johann Sebastian Bach)

Norbert Müllemann (Editor)

Marc-André Hamelin (Fingering)

Francis Bowdery (Commentary)

Arrangement for Piano, Urtext Edition, paperbound

Piano solo

Pages 43 (VIII+35), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm

HN 557 · ISMN 979-0-2018-0557-3

Who isn’t familiar with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chaconne, the final movement in his Partita in d minor for Violin solo? Time and again composers have been inspired to make this exceptional piece accessible for other instruments. Perhaps the best-known arrangement is by Ferruccio Busoni.

Without distancing himself too greatly from Bach’s original, he endeavours to transpose the virtuosity of the string writing onto the piano. Thus Busoni wrote for the piano in a way that congenially makes the most of the capabilities of the modern piano. Our Urtext edition not only takes into account the traditional sources but also meticulously analyses a piano roll in great depth on which Busoni himself can be heard. The fingerings were provided by none other than Marc-André Hamelin.