Well Tempered Clavier: 48 Preludes and Fugues for the Piano Book 2 Vol 14

Clear easy to read music.

DO NOT BUY this version unless you want to learn the wrong notes!! Czerny thought he was better than Bach and literally changed a bunch of notes. Avoid anything edited by Czerny like the plague!! Unfortunately have to relearn a piece the right way and just bought the far more expensive Henle version, and of course had written in this book so can’t return it. Save yourself the headache and just buy the Henle one!

Forty-eight separate, usually short, pieces of great variety, typically Bach. Edited by Czerny, with excellent and detailed fingering provided.

The fingerings this edition make the task of learning the 48 much less daunting. While it is not the most textually accurate edition, I believe that it is the most practical PREFORMING edition for anyone who wants to learn the 48. The Urtext edition is very good from a scholarly standpoint, but is however, unsympathetic towards the performer, having little to no fingerings or agogic markings. To solve the dilemma, use the Czerny edition for fingerings and expressive suggestions, and cross reference it with the Urtext for textual fidelity.

It was perfect, thank you

The Schirmer editions are always so easy to use! I like the size of the book overall and the musical notation is clear and easy to see. The historical notes in the book are interesting, and the fingering suggestions are very good. Bach needs no more praise short of God-like acknowledgement. Now if I could just do justice to these works at my piano!

Czerny is the man. I prefer this Schirmer volume over other desirable publishers' choice of editors. Not a perfect volume, but Schirmer Yellow Books last forever due to the good quality binding and cover, and are very affordable. Schirmer isn't my favorite for every work, but I'd say this is a wonderful one to stick to for life.

The main reason I bought this version of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is for the suggested fingering. When you consider that Czerny added the fingering to this version, then, I am confident that it will be of great help.

The Score was fine for me, although I tend to reproduce each piece and enlarge to make sight reading easier for my tired eyes.

A clearly set out score, but the way that it is bound makes it difficult to get it open enough to read the ends of the lines

Maybe tod only the piece I’m working on, but the writing is so different to the others i had been studying on, mising a lot of the ornaments and writing some of the lines differently making it a bit more confusing..

I won't pretend this is as good an edition as the Dover but at this price it is perfectly serviceable. It is not too cramped, cleanly printed and legible. Dover will give you luxuriously layout and myriads of foot notes but at the end f the day it is the musical notes that matter.

Must have of everyone serious about their keyboard skills.