I think I am getting much better at it, only after several years of attempt! I started out with this piece long back, mainly because I liked it musically and not for its technical content. It turned out to be pretty difficult to practice and get this piece to be played on the keyboard. It is almost as if Bach is teasing you with this composition. You won't believe how much work your left hand needs to do ON TOP of the already complex right hand part. So it has taken me quite a bit of time to get this thing. I gave my wife a big headache playing this over and over on Saturday. Not that I have completedly mastered it or perfected, but I was able to 'press' all the right notes at the right times with or without keeping the tempo. The first half of the song is somewhat easier for me to play. The second half is pretty difficult. It is very important to maintain the fingering for each note, otherwise you soon run out of fingers to play the rest of the notes. God only knows how he even composed such a thing - the piece itself is only about two minutes long at the most. Glenn Gould has created a couple of CDs just playing Bach's Goldberg variations. There are about 33 variations in all. May be 32, but you get the idea.
He has composed this entirely in the G scale. Of course he does the usual thing of jumping into other scales if he thought they might add to the aesthetics. On the whole, he must have had two brains if he had to compose this thing. He has a whole bunch of pieces like this - like the two part and the three part inventions, which he seemed to have composed exclusively to train his students. His students must have had one hell of a time with him! Ha. His family itself is very musical. He almost had an entire ensemble in his family. There were violinists, harpsichordists, organists and so forth all in the same family. Bach is Bach.
The 9th symphony started out to be a wonderful concert. I was just a tad disappointed towards the end, in the last movement, when I felt that the singers could have done a better job. 'Cause I have heard a better version of it at UCLA's Royce Hall once.
He has composed this entirely in the G scale. Of course he does the usual thing of jumping into other scales if he thought they might add to the aesthetics. On the whole, he must have had two brains if he had to compose this thing. He has a whole bunch of pieces like this - like the two part and the three part inventions, which he seemed to have composed exclusively to train his students. His students must have had one hell of a time with him! Ha. His family itself is very musical. He almost had an entire ensemble in his family. There were violinists, harpsichordists, organists and so forth all in the same family. Bach is Bach.
The 9th symphony started out to be a wonderful concert. I was just a tad disappointed towards the end, in the last movement, when I felt that the singers could have done a better job. 'Cause I have heard a better version of it at UCLA's Royce Hall once.
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