A catalogue of known transcriptions and arrangements for piano solo, duet and duo of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Compiled by Benjamin Costello.
This page includes works for piano duo. Further pages include piano solos and piano duets.
Any updates, additions and/or corrections (together with suitable evidence) are welcomed, and should be addressed to:
Mr Benjamin Costello
c/o Music Department
Shrewsbury House School
Ditton Road, Surbiton
Surrey KT6 6RL
United Kingdom
Transcriptions and arrangements for piano duo
(two pianos, four hands)
BABIN, Victor
Jesus bleibt meine Freunde, from Cantata No. 147
Six Trio Sonatas
BAUER, Harold
Italian Concerto BWV 971 (IMC)
BAYNON, Arthur (1889 – 1954)
Minuet and Badinerie (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
BECKET WILLIAMS, Christopher à
Organ Fugue in G minor (Little Organ Fugue) (Hinrichsen)
Ertödt uns Durch dein’ Güte! from Cantata 22 (OUP 1930)
Suite (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
BERKOWITZ, Ralph
Allegro in G minor, from Sonata No. 3 for viola da gamba and harpsichord
BILLAM, Peter J. (b.1948)
British-born composer, guitarist and teacher
Ricercare a 6 (from the Musical Offering) (self-published)
BRAGGIOTTI, Marie
Toccatta and Fugue in D minor BWV 582
BURMEISTER, R.
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 (IMC)
BUSONI, Ferruccio (1866 – 1924)
Highly influential Italian composer, pianist and authority on Bach
Study (Bearbeitung der Fuga XV für zwei Pianoforte)
CHASSENS, Abram
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582
COHEN, Harriet
English pianist with small hands, noted for her performances of Bach
Be Contented, O My Soul
COSTELLO, Benjamin John (b.1976)
British pianist and conductor
Sinfonia aus der Ratswahlkantate BWV 29
Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 541
DUNCAN, C.H. Stuart
Eleven Chorale Preludes from the Little Organ Book
Organ Fugue in B minor (Edwin Ashdown)
20 Fugues from the “48” (Lengnick & Co)
EMERY, Walter
First Sinfonia, from Cantata No. 35
FLEMING, Christopher le (1908 – 1985)
British pianist and composer
Prelude & Fugue in Eb “St Anne” (Chester)
Two Chorale Preludes
Mortify us by Thy Grace
Jesu, source of our desire (Chester)
FOSS, Hubert James (1899 – 1953)
English publisher and writer on music
See what His love can do
FOSTER, Arnold (1896 – 1963)
English conductor, composer and educationist.
Director of Westminster School and Morley College, London
Wohl euch, ihr auserwählten Seelen (aria from Cantata No. 34 “O Ewiges Feuer”)
Happy be ye (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
FREY, Walter (1898 – 1985)
Swiss pianist
Kunst der Fuge (Kunzelmann)
GHEEL, Henry Ernest (1881-1961)
British composer and arranger
Siciliano in G minor from the Flute Sonata in Eb major BWV 1031 (Edwin Ashdown)
HARRIS, Sir William H. (1883 – 1973)
English organist, choirmaster and composer
Chorale Prelude: Wir glauben all’ an einen Gott, Vater (Novello)
HESS, Dame Myra (1890 – 1965)
English pianist
Jesu Bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata No.147, BWV 147) (OUP)
HOIBY, Lee
Three Organ Chorale Preludes
HOLLOWAY, Robin (b.1943)
English composer
Gilded Goldbergs (after the Goldberg Variations) Op.86 (B & H)
HORN, Elsie
Chorale from Cantata 147
HORNIBROOK, Wallace
In Thee Is Gladness
HOWE, Mary (1882 – 1964)
American composer and pianist
Schafe können sicher weiden (from Cantata “Was mir behagt, ist nur der munt’re Jagd” BWV 208) (OUP)
Das ist je gewisslich wahr (from Cantata No.141 attrib. Telemann) (OUP)
Thy Birthday is come
Chorale: Come, sweet death
LANGRISH, Vivian
Pianist and Professor at the RAM
In dir ist Freude
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645
Organ Prelude and Fugue in G major
Organ Toccata in F major
LEE, E. Markham
Four Dance Measures (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
LEV, Ray
Bist du bei mir
LOVELL, Joan
Chorale Prelude: Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesus Christ
LUBOSHUTZ, Pierre
Chorale Prelude: Now Comes the Gentle Saviour
MAIER, Guy
Air in D, from Overture in D (Air on the G String)
Siciliano, from Flute Sonata No. 2 BWB 1031b
MEDNIKOFF, Nicolai
My Heart Ever Faithful, aria from the Pentacost Oratorio
ODUM, John
Pastoral Symphony, from the Christmas Oratorio
PHILIPP, Isidor (1863 – 1958)
French pianist, teacher, composer and editor
Allein Gott in der Hoeh’sei Her
Prelude and Fugue in A
RABINOF, Sylvia
Invention No. in F BWV 779 (Improvisation for second piano, original unaltered)
RHEINBERGER, Joseph (1839 – 1901)
German composer, organist, conductor and teacher
Goldberg-Variationen WoO 3 / op.15 (ed. M. Reger (1915))
ROSS, C.
Gigue in C
RUSSELL, Leslie
Awake Thou Wintry Earth, chorale from Cantata No. 129
SAAR, Louis Victor (1868-1937)
Dutch-American composer
A second piano part to the Fifteen Two-Part Inventions (Schirmer)
SCOTT, Cyril
Andante in F Major from Keyboard Sonata in D minor
Jig Fugue in G major
SILOTI (Ziloti), Alexander Il’yich (1863 – 1945)
Ukrainian pianist and conductor
Italian Concerto
Andante from Concerto No. 3 for two keyboards in C minor
Andante from Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
SOMERVELL, Hubert (son of Sir Arthur Somervell?) 1863–1937)
Es halt’ es mit der blinden Welt (aria from Cantata No.94 “Was frag’ ich nach der Welt”)
STEINER, Eric
Adagio in A minor, from the Concerto for Two Keyboards in C BWV 1061
TAGLIAPETRA, Gino
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582
TATE, Phyllis (1911 – 87)
English composer
March in D, Sarabande in E minor
Polonaise in G major (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
TOVEY, Sir Donald Francis (1875 – 1940)
English music scholar, composer and pianist
Two Fugues from the Art of Fugue
TOWSEY, N.
Organ Prelude (Toccata) in D minor
VRIESLANDER, Otto
Christmas Pastoral (Pastoral Symphony from the Christmas Oratorio
WALKER, James
Trio Sonata in G major BWV 530
WEBB, Charles
Today Triumphs God's Son
WESTRUP, Sir Jack Allen (1904 – 1975)
English musicologist, conductor and writer
Chorale Preludes:
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
In dulci jubilo; Ich ruf’zu Dir
Alle Menschen müssen sterben (Hinrichsen)
WHITTAKER, William Gillies (1876 – 1944)
Principal of the Scottish National Academy of Music and Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645
Chorale preludes, organ, BWV 651-668
Clavierübung, Pt. 3, BWV 669-689
Chorale preludes: Das Orgelbüchlein
(Whittaker Collection at the University of Glasgow http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/whittaker.html)
WILSON, John
Adagio from the 6th Brandenburg Concerto (OUP Anglo-French Easier Two-Piano Series)
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