Bach & Mendelssohn: The Organ Sonatas
Two geniuses – two sets of ‘tutorial pieces’: Bach’s Trio Sonatas and Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonatas combined
loading ...Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six Trio Sonatas as tutorial pieces for his son, Wilhelm Friedemann. A good hundred years later but in the same spirit, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy created his six Organ Sonatas. Anything but monotonous studies, the results in both cases were masterpieces of the highest order.
