ExclusiveEccles: Violin Sonata in G minor - III. Adagio

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Henry Eccles: Violin Sonata in G minor - III. Adagio. This beautiful piece was played by Thrax. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) and is provided through www.musopen.org. No changes to the music were made.

"The enigmatic English Baroque composer Henry Eccles (1670-1742) is best remembered for his Violin Sonata in G minor. It's the eleventh in a series of twelve sonatas published in 1720. Musicologists have discovered that much of the collection was borrowed from the work of the innovative Italian composer and violinist Giuseppe Valentini, particularly his Op. 8 of 1714. Most of the G minor Sonata appears to have been written by Eccles, with the exception of the second movement (Courante), which was taken from Francesco Antonio Bonporti's Op. 10.

In Eccles's defence, the unattributed reuse of existing melodies and entire movements was a common practice among Baroque composers. Music was often quickly adapted for specific occasions and purposes. Around the time of Eccles's adaptation, J.S. Bach made his own keyboard transcription of Bonporti's Op. 10. Perhaps existing music was treated with the kind of freedom enjoyed by a modern jazz musician adapting a popular standard." – thelistenersclub.com

The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel at the Burgseeli, at Goldswil near Ringgenberg in Switzerland and edited by Wenjing Ma.







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