Douze Suites 2

During his lifetime, Telemann published six sets of harpsichord’s pieces (overtures, fantasias, fugues and minuets). It remains also 8 great suites for keyboard, preserved in manuscript form, some of them in several copies.

With the 4 suites extracted from the sets Essercizii musici (1739) and Der getreue Musik Meister (1728), the whole contains 12 suites, published by us in two volumes. Bach’s pupils and family copied some of these suites and one cannot be surprised to find some extracts of them in the Notenbüchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.