Clavier-Übung Explained

Clavier-Übung, in more modern spelling Klavierübung, is German for "keyboard exercise". In the late 17th and early 18th centuries this was a common title for keyboard music collections: first adopted by Johann Kuhnau in 1689,^{[1] [2]} the term later became mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach's four Clavier-Übung publications.^[1]

The following composers published works under the title Clavier-Übung:

• Johann Sebastian Bach:^{[1] [2]}
  • Clavier-Übung I: six partitas, published separately 1726 - 1730, then grouped in one volume in 1731
  • Clavier-Übung II: Italian Concerto and French Overture (1735)
  • Clavier-Übung III: also known as the German Organ Mass (1739)
  • Clavier-Übung IV: Aria with Diverse Variations, known as the Goldberg Variations (1741)
• Ferruccio Busoni
  • Klavierübung (1918–1925)
• Christoph Graupner:
  • Leichte Clavier-Übungen (c.1730)
• Johann Ludwig Krebs
  • Clavier Ubung Bestehend in verschiedenen vorspielen und veränderungen einiger Kirchen Gesaenge Nürnberg, J.U. Haffner, c. 1744)
  • Clavier-Ubung bestehet in einer [...] Suite [...] Zweyter Theil (Nürnberg, J.U. Haffner, c. 1744)
  • Clavier-Ubung bestehend in sechs Sonatinen … IIIter Theil (Nürnberg, J.U. Haffner, c. 1744)
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger
  • Clavierübungen mit der bachischen Applicatur, four volumes, 1761–1766
• Johann Krieger
  • Anmuthige Clavier-Übung (1698)
• Johann Kuhnau:^{[1] [2]}
  • Neuer Clavier-Übung, erster Theil (1689)
  • Neuer Clavier-Übung, anderer Theil (1692)
• Vincent Lübeck
  • Clavier Übung (1728)
• Georg Andreas Sorge
  • Clavier Übung in three parts, 18 sonatas for harpsichord (1738 - c.1745)
  • Clavier Übung in two parts, 24 preludes for organ or clavichord (1739 - 42)

Notes and References

1. Wollf (1991) p.189
2. Boyd (2006) p.193)