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Classical Music

sir pball

(5,198 posts) Sat Nov 8, 2025, 10:27 PM Nov 8

The Hammerklavier is…one of the best pieces of music ever writtten. Enjoy the performance.

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The Hammerklavier 4th. (Original Post) sir pball Nov 8 OP

Pretty awesome. usonian Nov 8 #1

Beautiful! HeartsCanHope Sunday #2

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1. Pretty awesome.

Sat Nov 8, 2025, 11:24 PM

Nov 8

Looking around, I found this:

Analytical Exposition of the Fugue (1.4MB PDF)
Editor Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Publisher Info. New York: G. Schirmer, No. 11660, 1894.
Reissue: [1926 or later]
Copyright
Public Domain
Misc. Notes Notes in English. From Appendix III in the Supplement to Busoni's edition of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Busoni cat. no. BV B 25, part 1). Extracted from original PDF file from www.waltercosand.com.

https://ks15.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/0f/IMSLP36336-PMLP81057-Busoni-Analytical_Exposition_of_Beethoven_Fugue_Op106_Hammerklavier_Schirmer_English.pdf

At the Sonata page at IMSLP.

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2. Beautiful!

Sun Nov 9, 2025, 01:39 AM

Sunday

Thank you for your post--I really enjoyed this!