Wednesday, January 2, 2019

J.S.Bach - Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue, BWV 903



Wim Winters, clavichord

Wim Winter's Youtube channel which deals mostly with the clavichord but also historical pianos and performance practice, based on extensive reading and research of primary documentary evidence along with well reasoned and informed speculation is wonderful.  I'm intending to post more of his work this year.

This one in which he documents that Beethoven! was apparently using a clavichord as late as 1825 was really astonishing.  Considering the  profundity of his  hearing loss it's as puzzling as it is interesting.


His ideas on how the use of the metronome seems to have changed are really important but more of that later.

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