Works Without Opus Numbers
Six Little Pieces on Sketches for Pianoforte, by J.S. Bach
Published by Arthur P. Schmidt.
1. Courante.
2. Menuet.
3. Gigue.
4. Menuet.
5. Menuet.
6. Marche.
These are illuminating little MacDowell-like adaptations of some sketches by “one of the world’s mightiest tone poets,” as MacDowell described J.S. Bach. They are charmingly and cleverly written, although not always satisfying, it is to be feared, to the strict purist.