Free and premium sheet music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) for classical guitar. Although Bach never specifically wrote for the classical guitar there is plenty of evidence that he regularly interacted with lute players including Sylvius Leopold Weiss. The ‘Lute Suites’ most likely written on a Lute-Harpsichord hybrid nevertheless exist in period lute tablature and it is well documented that Bach regularly rearranged his music for various instruments.
Sonata n°1 BWV 1001 Presto - Johann Sebastian Bach, the best guitar pro tabs and music sheets for guitar, bass, drums, piano and more!| mySongBook.com. Jun 6, 2008 - [PDF] + Video - Violin solo - Baroque * License: Creative Commons. 2 scores found for 'BWV 1001 Presto BWV 1001' on Violin.
Free and Premium Editions from this site:
- Bach: Air ‘On the G String’ for Easy Guitar, Gr.4, Baroque, Notes & TAB
- Bach: Bouree from BWV 996, Gr. 6, Baroque, Free Notation or TAB
- Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Gr.4, Baroque, Free Notation or TAB
- Bach / Petzold: Minuet in G, Anh.114, Gr.4, Baroque, Notation or TAB
- Bach: Prelude in D minor, BWV 999, Gr.7, Baroque, Free Notation or TAB
- Bach: Prelude from Cello Suite BWV 1007, Gr.7, Baroque, Editorial Free Notation or TAB
- Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007, Baroque, Notation, Free non-editorial edition
- Bach: Prelude in E Major, Lute Suite BWV1006a – Free Unfingered, Fingered Notation, or Tab edition.
Video of Bach on Guitar
Recommended Editions from Others (Amazon)
- Bach Lute Suites (Koonce) – Koonce – A standard, has facsimiles at the end.
- Bach Cello Suite No.1, BWV 1007 – Koonce (I-A)
- 6 Sonatas And Partitas For Violin BWV1001-1006 – Tadashi Sasaki
- 3 Sonatas for Guitar Solo – Manuel Barrueco, BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005
- Bach Cello Suites Arranged for Guitar – Stanley Yates
- Violin Sonatas and Partitas, I prefer to read off the violin score Urtext edition.
Keep in mind that:
- BWV 995 – Suite in G minor is a transcription of Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011
- BWV 1000 – Fugue in G minor is a transcription from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001
- BWV 1006a is a transcription from Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 for solo violin
Videos Featured on the Site
- Adagio BWV 1001 by Bach – Video, Sheet Music (Stephanie Jones)
- Violin Partita II in D Minor, BWV 1004 (Suite & Chaconne) – Video, Sheet Music (Sanel Redžić)
- Prelude – Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007 by Bach – Video, Free Sheet Music (Ana Vidovic)
- Sarabande – Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007 by Bach – Video, Free Sheet Music (Ana Vidovic)
- Prelude in D minor, BWV 999 – Video, Lesson, Free Sheet Music (Uro Baric/Bradford Werner)
- Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro BWV 998 – Video, Sheet Music (Rosie Bennet)
Lute Suites Arranged by Jean-François Delcamp (delcamp.net)
Suites & Partitas – Arranged by Eythor Thorlaksson (classical-guitar-school.com)
Free Hans Bruger: J.S. Bach: Compositionen für die Laute (1921) – Copyright/Notes: Public Domain. Beware of mistakes and old-school keys! I would not recommend this edition but could still be useful.
I’m always on the lookout for new guitarists, that is, ones I haven’t heard of before. However, I should have known this one who won the Jack Marshall Prize and Gold Medal in the 2012 Parkening International Guitar Competition. Here he plays the Presto from Bach’s violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001. Super clear, energetic, and rhythmic playing. I believe he was or still is studying with Manuel Barrueco.
Sheet music via Amazon, Barrueco edition: 3 Sonatas for Guitar Solo from Sonata BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005
Video Link/Source: http://youtu.be/k52KXgoEDVY
Here’s some more bio via the Parkening Competition site:
Petrit Ceku, 27, was born in Prizren, Kosovo, where he received instruction from Luan Sapunxhiu. In 2002 he moved to Zagreb, Croatia, where he continued his music education under Xhevdet Sahatxhija. Later he entered Darko Petrinjak’s class at the Music Academy in Zagreb and graduated from the program in 2008. His first CD was released that year under the Naxos label. He currently studies with world-famous guitarist Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. Ceku has won first prize in numerous international guitar competitions, such as the 2003 Anna Amalia Competition for Young Guitarists (Germany). The next year he won the Emilio Pujol Guitar Competition (Italy) and the Andrés Segovia Competition (Velbert, Germany). In 2007 he placed first in the Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition (Italy). Last year he received first prize in the Schadt String Competition (Allentown, PA) and the Maurizio Biasini Guitar Competition (Italy). He has also appeared all over Europe and North America in solo recitals or accompanied by major symphonic orchestras.