DAN 
TEPFER

Following the critical and audience acclaim for his Goldberg Variations / Variations. Dan Tepfer released Inventions / Reinventions on StorySound Records in March 2023. It immediately entered the Classical Billboard Charts at #1, remaining there for two weeks.

“In “Inventions/Reinventions,” Tepfer boldly — even audaciously — supplies the “missing” nine inventions in the form of his own free improvisations.” New York Times — May 2021

Bach composed his set of “Inventions” as study pieces for his children and students, covering eight major and seven minor keys, for a total of fifteen. But there are twenty-four possible major and minor keys, so there are nine keys missing. In the “Inventions / Reinventions” program, while playing Bach’s original compositions sequentially, Dan Tepfer creates his own Inventions for the missing keys, freely improvising new ones during each performance. In so doing, he follows the logic behind Bach’s beloved original pieces, in which simple musical ideas, like characters in a novel or a play, are taken on a harmonic journey to foreign keys before returning home.

“One is struck by the playfulness Tepfer contrasts with Bach’s austerity in his pieces—the improvised Inventions are performed with tremendous ease…Tepfer’s work is the result of deepest engagement with and at the same time a bow to Grandmaster Bach.” Jazzthetik (Germany) – June 2023

Run Time: 60 minutes, with no intermission.