Translation: wrote music for every combination of instruments and voices. “Figured bass” was a Baroque system of notating harmony.
Translation: Like a few of my pieces, once this was completed, I set it aside and forgot about it.
Translation: Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of “common practice” harmony and voice leading.
Translation: Trade. The discs also include biographical and analytical information from Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians , 1911 Edition.
