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Clio Suite

$25.00

Laura Sherman has transcribed and edited Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer’s “Clio Suite” for solo pedal harp. This piece is the first of nine dance suites from Fischer’s collection for keyboard, Musicalischer Parnassus. Each suite represents one of the nine Greek muses; this suite represents Clio, the muse of history and lyre-playing.

This piece is available as a PDF download for $25.00.

Pages to print: 12 pgs.

Duration: 12:00

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About the composer

Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746), who worked as the Kapellmeister to Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden for most of his life, was considered by J.S. Bach’s biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818) to be one of the best composers for keyboard music during the Baroque period. But because many of his compositions did not survive, Fischer is not as well-known as the younger J.S. Bach (1685-1750). Fischer was responsible for bringing the French Baroque style to Germany and also made innovations to the Baroque keyboard and orchestra suite forms. Bach and Handel were familiar with his music and borrowed from it, as was common practice at the time.

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