Fischer, Edwin. (1886-1960)
Autograph Musical Quotation - "B-A-C-H."
Very fine AMQS from the great Swiss pianist, associated in particular with the music of Bach and the first to record The Well-Tempered Klavier. A probing interpreter, he wrote that "our aim should not be pure soil and sterile air in which nothing will grow." The BACH motif neatly penned and signed "zur freundl[iche] Erinnerung / Edwin Fischer" on a blank off-white card measuring 14.5 x 9 cm. In fine condition and sold together with the original envelope and some German newspaper clippings about the pianist.The BACH motif includes the notes B flat, A, C, B natural, in which - in German musical nomenclature - the note B natural is written as H and the B flat as B, thereby forming Johann Sebastian Bach's family name. One of the most frequently occurring examples of a musical cryptogram, the motif has been used by countless composers, including Bach himself, most famously as a fugue subject in the last Contrapunctus of The Art of Fugue. (8526)
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