Bach’s ‘notebooks’ provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. They contain original compositions, exercises, and model examples by other composers, all collected with a view to providing a rounded musical education to family members. The Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was compiled for Johann Sebastian’s eldest son, who himself went on to become one of the leading organists, improvisers and composers of his day. The book contains systematic exercises, first or early versions of three of Bach’s most important keyboard cycles (some of the preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Preambulums for the Two-part Inventions and Fantasias for the Three-part Sinfonias) and suites by Richter, Telemann and Stölzel among other items.

This Urtext edition is presented in an attractive landscape format, inspired by the original layout of the Notebook, making it especially well-suited to the piano music stand. It presents cutting-edge scholarship from the world’s leading Bach authority Professor Christoph Wolff including the most up-to-date research regarding attributions of authors and writers, new fragments brought to light by recently rediscovered manuscripts and the latest dating of sources.

Content:
Applicatio C-Dur/C major (anonym)
Præambulum 1 C-Dur/C major BWV 924
Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV 691
Præambulum 2 d‑Moll/D minor BWV 926
Jesu, meine Freude BWV 753 (Fragm.)
Allemande 1 g‑Moll/G minor BR‑WFB A 40 (W. F. Bach)
Allemande 2 g‑Moll/G minor BR‑WFB A 41 (W. F. Bach
Fragm.)
Præambulum F‑Dur/F major BWV 927
Præambulum g‑Moll/G minor BWV 930
Præludium F‑Dur/F major BWV 928
Menuet 1 G‑Dur/G major BR‑WFB A 42 (W. F. Bach)
Menuet 2 g‑Moll/G minor BR‑WFB A 43 (W. F. Bach)
Menuet 3 G‑Dur/G major BWV 843
Præludium 1 C‑Dur/C major BWV 846.1
Præludium 2 c‑Moll/C minor BWV 847.1
Præludium 3 d‑Moll/D minor BWV 851.1
Præludium 4 D‑Dur/D major BWV 850.1
Præludium 5 e‑Moll/E minor BWV 855.1
Præludium 6 E‑Dur/E major BWV 854.1
Præludium 7 F‑Dur/F major BWV 856.1
Præludium 8 Cis‑Dur/C# major BWV 848.2
Præludium 9 cis‑Moll/C# minor BWV 849.2
Præludium 10 es‑Moll/Eb minor BWV 853.2
Præludium 11 f‑Moll/F minor BWV 857.2
Piece pour le Clavecin C‑Dur/C major (J. C. Richter)
Præludium ex c# BR‑WFB A 44 (W. F. Bach)
Præludium ex d# BR‑WFB A 45 (W. F. Bach)
Præludium ex e# BR‑WFB A 46 (W. F. Bach
Fragm.)
Præludium a‑Moll/A minor BR‑WFB A 47 (anonym)
Basso‑continuo‑Stimme (anonym
Fragm.)
Fuga à 3 C‑Dur/C major BWV 953
Præambulum 1 C‑Dur/C major BWV 772.1
Præambulum 2 d‑Moll/D minor BWV 775.1
Præambulum 3 e‑Moll/E minor BWV 778.1
Præambulum 4 F‑Dur/F major BWV 779.1
Præambulum 5 G‑Dur/G major BWV 781.1
Præambulum 6 a‑Moll/A minor BWV 784.1
Præambulum 7 h‑Moll/B minor BWV 786.1
Præambulum 8 B‑Dur/Bb major BWV 785.1
Præambulum 9 A‑Dur/A major BWV 783.1
Præambulum 10 g‑Moll/G minor BWV 782.1
Præambulum 11 f‑Moll/F minor BWV 780.1
Præambulum 12 E‑Dur/E major BWV 777.1
Præambulum 13 Es‑Dur/Eb major BWV 776.1
Præambulum 14 D‑Dur/D major BWV 774.1
Præambulum 15 c‑Moll/C minor BWV 773.1
Suite A‑Dur/A major (G. Ph. Telemann)
Partita g‑Moll/G minor (G. H. Stölzel)
Fantasia 1 C‑Dur/C major BWV 787.1
Fantasia 2 d‑Moll/D minor BWV 790.1
Fantasia 3 e‑Moll/E minor BWV 793.1
Fantasia 4 F‑Dur/F major BWV 794.1
Fantasia 5 G‑Dur/G major BWV 796.1
Fantasia 6 a‑Moll/A minor BWV 799.1
Fantasia 7 h‑Moll/B minor BWV 801.1
Fantasia 8 B‑Dur/Bb major BWV 800.1
Fantasia 9 A‑Dur/A major BWV 798.1
Fantasia 10 g‑Moll/G minor BWV 797.1
Fantasia 11 f‑Moll/F minor BWV 795.1
Fantasia 12 E‑Dur/E major BWV 792.1
Fantasia 13 Es‑Dur/E major BWV 791.1
Fantasia 14 D‑Dur/D major BWV 789.1
Fantasia 15 c‑Moll/C minor BWV 788.1