Goldberg Variations

Scholarly-critical Urtext performing edition based on the New Bach Edition.

With fingering for performance on modern Pianos as well as a commentary regarding the fingering.

Division of parts between the hands basedon Bach’s original print.

Bach’s Goldberg Variations have remained a challenge for every Harpsichord player and pianist to the present day. One special problem with performances on amodern Piano is that Bach wrote this work for a two-manual Harpsichord. Ragna Schirmer’s fingering offers the most convenient solutions for the many crossings of the hands.

Ragna Schirmer has alreadyprovidedfingering for the Bärenreiter edition of Bach’s Six Partitas: First Part of the Clavier Übung (BA 5247).