![]() IMSLP, the International Music Score Library Project, lists no fewer than 11 transcriptions for piano solo, as well as arrangements for the wildest assortment of other instruments. Whether they intuited such a rebuke or not, those attempting this feat of transcription have been legion. To such pretenders to the throne of musical majesty Bach might well have replied: “I know the organ. One might well imagine a similar exchange taking place across the centuries between Johann Sebastian Bach and those 19th-century virtuoso pianists daring to claim their own instrument as being in a direct line of succession from the 18th-century church organ and thus a worthy instrument on which to perform his mighty Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. Kennedy as a model for his own political outlook, only to receive his comeuppance in a stinging riposte from his debate opponent, Sen. Dan Quayle, in attempting to wrap himself in the glory of a martyred former president, made so bold as to cite John F. In the vice-presidential debate of 1988, the Republican candidate, linguistically accident-prone Sen. While keyboard transcription and political debate might at first blush seem to be radically different fields of endeavour, one justly famous incident on American television stands emblematic of the risks run, in both disciplines, for those who would engage in rhetorical posturing. 21, KK IVa/13, P.Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 (arr. 1: Waltz in D-flat major, Minute Waltz (1846) 18: Grande valse brillante in E-flat major (1833) VIIa/3: Variations on a Ukrainian Dumka for violin and piano, by Antoni Radziwill, completed by Chopin (by June 1830) Vb/2: Variations in F, piano 4-hands or 2 pianos (1826) 37: Variations in A, Souvenir de Paganini (1829 pub. 14: Variations in E major on the air "Der Schweizerbub: Steh'auf, steh'auf o du Schweitzer Bub", aka Introduction et Variations sur un Lied allemand (1826 pub. 12a: Variations in D major or B minor on an Irish National Air (from Thomas Moore) for 2 pianos, P. IVa/6: Introduction, Theme and Variations in D on a Venetian air, piano 4-hands (18)
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