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Two musical worlds collide as jazz pianist Dan Tepfer finds inspiration, and room for improvisation, in J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions. For pianist Dan Tepfer, improvisation is the mother of Bach's ...
When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...
Simone Dinnerstein can remember the first time she heard one of Bach’s two-part inventions. She was about 9 years old and attended the Manhattan School of Music every Saturday in its precollege ...
In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...
Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...