Girolamo Frescobaldi’s music profoundly influenced such composers as Froberger, Buxtehude, Johann Sebastian Bach and Muffat.
The well-known Pidoux edition is now joined by Bärenreiter’s definitive new Urtext edition in six volumes. It offers professional musicians, musicologists and music lovers an unrivalled musical text that satisfies the needs of performers while providing a full account of the works’ genesis and surviving sources.
Each volume in this new edition features a detailed Foreword on the genesis of the works, the situation regarding sources, performance practice as well as the editorial method employed. A Critical Commentary rounds off each volume.