Early Keyboard Music - C. Graupner
Graupner's dates: 1683-1760. Graupner wrote about 2,000
works. He was a fluent composer with good melodic content, variety
of style and a sound grasp of variation technique. He wrote many
partitas for harpsichord. A small amount of his music has achieved wide
circulation.
I have found an interesting set of his pieces: "Aria con variazioni",
published by Peters (E.P. 11949), no date. Graupner writes with the fluency of
Wagenseil and Benda; the tune is treated with ingenuity and imagination.
There is a hint of the French style, and it fits the piano well. In the same
book on a slightly lower plane is the chaconne from the E minor partita.
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
