Bach, The Fencing Master, About Mrs. Anna Magdalena Bach's Autograph Copy of the 6 Suites for Violoncello Solo senza Basso of Johann Sebastian Bach

This edition contains all 6 Suites for violoncello by J.S. Bach. It is a combination and revision of earlier editions: Bach, the Fencing Master (1998), its revision Droppings (2015), and Bach and the Happy Few (2014). Three hundred years of opinions of lesser men - always lesser men than Bach - have made it impossible to read what it says in the wonderfully clear quill-pen texts of Anna Magdalena Bach. String music used to be a world of its own, full of idiosyncrasies like up- and down bow, crossing of strings, open string-notes, separate or slurred notes, playing near or far from the bridge, double stops with different lengths and tones with vibrato, with accents, or special diction in the middle. Nowadays, preconceived ideas of people, who do not even play a string-instrument themselves, often are directing our bow-arms. My books about these works should not be necessary at all for anybody, but they are one of the few ways to re-discover some of the lost charm of the 6 Suites à Violoncello senza Basso.