ExclusiveBach: Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017. This beautiful piece was played by Josef Suk. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

The Six Sonatas for Violin and Obligato Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019:

The “Sei Sounate à Cembalo certato è Violino Solo”, as they are called in the earliest authentic source, are Bach’s most important chamber music cycle, in a sense his chamber music legacy to posterity. They were the first violin sonatas in music history in which the keyboard instrument broke away from its role as chordal accompaniment in basso continuo and became an equal partner to the violin. The imagination with which Bach explored the compositional possibilities of this constellation, the formal perfection of each individual sonata and their very specific expressive world make these pieces the first “classical” duo sonatas in the violin repertoire.

The sonatas were composed before 1725. In the summer of that year, Bach had his nephew Johann Heinrich make a copy of the parts, to which he added the final movements of the still unfinished sixth sonata by hand. Bach apparently wanted to play the sonatas during his visit to Dresden in September 1725 with his violinist friend Johann Georg Pisendel, and possibly also in December in Köthen, together with the Köthen concertmaster Spieß and Prince Leopold on the viola da gamba. A viola da gamba part has been preserved for the sonatas, which reinforces the harpsichord bass. The pieces were certainly composed before his move to Leipzig, i.e. before May 1723 at the Köthen court. Bach later revised the cycle twice, with the sixth sonata undergoing a fundamental reworking each time. The final version from the 1740s has been preserved in a copy made by his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickel.

Source: kammermusikfuehrer.de

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