Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 6 Präl.und Fugen KV 404a Teil1: String Orchestra

“I am presently collecting the fugues of Bach – not only of sebastian, but also of Emanuel and friedeman”, wrote Mozart to his father in April 1782. This could be a hint that the Six Three-Part Preludes and Fugues were derived from this collection: Mozart wrote string-trio arrangements of two preludes and five fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, and of one fugue by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. This apparently plunged him into such a creative mood that he simply wrote the missing preludes himself. It is to Johann Nepomuk David that we owe the first edition of this work, which introduced this unique document to a broad public for the first time. The present edition has retained David’s basic editorial decision to adapt the divergent passages of Mozart’s arrangement to Bach’s original music text. Contents: No. 1 - Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fuga Mozart’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltemperirte Clavier I , Fuga 8 in D# minor BWV 853 No. 2 - Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fuga Mozart’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltemperirte Clavier II , Fuga 14 in F# minor BWV 883 No. 3 - Adagio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fuga Mozart’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltemperirte Clavier II , Fuga 13 in F# major BWV 882