J.S. Bach’s 2-part Inventions are the ideal terrain for anyone wishing to perform keyboard music of the eighteenth-century. These marvellous compositions were conceived for educational purposes for students to learn not only how to play two parts correctly, but also and above all, as Bach himself says in the frontispiece of one of the autograph manuscripts, to acquire the art of the cantabile and the style of the composition.

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