These recordings are found automatically, and the machine still gets it wrong. One click from you — yes or no — fixes the catalogue for every musician who opens this page after you. Across our 10,000 works, your answer is our only real quality check.
An arrangement or transcription is fine: if you recognise the work, answer yes. Answer no if it is a different work, a different composer, or if the recording does not play.
-
Play — Bach: Invention 14 in B-flat Major, BWV 785 (Urtext Edition) · Bach Piano Scores (the player loads on click)
Is this the right work? -
Play — Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785 · Johann Sebastian Bach, András Schiff (the player loads on click)
Is this the right work?
No account is required and no personal data is collected.
Public-domain sheet music on IMSLP ↗
Official level, taken from the exam syllabus.
Difficulty estimate by MusicCoach on a scale of 1 to 100.
Most works cluster between 45 and 65: a small score gap often marks a real step. The highlighted bar shows this work among those for the same instrument.
The MusicCoach difficulty measures a work's overall demands (technique, reading, stamina) on a shared 0-100 scale, consolidated from editorial and pedagogical reference points (Henle, exam syllabuses, curation) and our own analyses. It measures neither musical value nor the practice time YOU will need: two musicians of the same level can experience the same work very differently depending on their strengths (hands used to octaves, quick sight-reading…). The confidence reflects how many reference points sit behind the score and how well they agree — a lightly documented score is flagged “to validate”. For a truly personal bearing, the diagnostic and your space compare each work to YOUR estimated level, which the score alone cannot do.
Does this rating look right to you?
This rating is computed automatically from heterogeneous sources. It gets things wrong, sometimes badly. If you know this work, your answer is worth more than our computation: it tells us which ratings to review.
Each suggestion combines difficulty gap, risk, confidence and skill overlap. The first two cards in each column are the most useful pedagogically.
The safest next step.
A genuine step up, without a jolt.
A useful leap with guided practice.
This Invention in B-flat unfolds as a lively, clear dialogue between two voices, alternating sprightly motifs and singing responses that call for crisp attack and precise articulation to preserve contrapuntal momentum. You will particularly face Polyphony in two voices (4.6/5) — you must isolate and shape each line by choosing fingerings that sustain the continuity of each voice — and Touch control (2.5/5), needed here to balance clear attacks and small dynamic nuances without blurring contrapuntal clarity. It is a pedagogical keyboard piece by Bach, intended to develop quick idea exchange and hand independence within the baroque keyboard repertoire. I do not list a reference recording because I cannot be fully certain of a specific, reliably identified interpretation for this particular Invention.