In enjoying and reviewing Leon Fleisher’s 85th birthday release – it’s my album of the week on sinfinimusic.com – I mulled a good deal over a fugue by Bach that was transcribed for the left hand by Johannes Brahms.
Does anyone know why? Or for whom?
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Hello Norman,
I believe Brahms transcribed it for Clara Schumann as she suffered an injury to her right hand.
Best,
of course there is also the Brahms Left-hand transcription of the Bach Chaconne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6GcTXLD7JY
and although not just for the left hand, he also wrote this witty arrangement which is an inversion of a Schubert Impromtu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw198nPbU7A
Which fugue of Bach has Brahms rewritten, adapted or what so ever for a pianist’s left hand?? The one and only ‘Bach-Brahmspiece’ for the left hand I know concerns Bach’s famous Chaconne in d-minor for solo-violin. So what’s up?
I think Norman means the Chaconne. It´s a great transcription that I prefer in many ways to the more frequently played Busoni transcription.
Yes, I believe it was presented to Clara when she injured her right hand (tendonitis perhaps?).