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BWV 1042 - 1st mov't arr. for organ
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Andrew Schulman
2006-09-07 16:30:28 UTC
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Anyone know anything about the arrangement Bach did of the first
movement of the E major violin concerto for organ and strings? I'm not
referring to the Sinfonia based on BWV 1006.

Andrew
j***@yahoo.com
2006-09-07 19:33:34 UTC
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Post by Andrew Schulman
Anyone know anything about the arrangement Bach did of the first
movement of the E major violin concerto for organ and strings? I'm not
referring to the Sinfonia based on BWV 1006.
Andrew
You are not refering to the Sinfonia in BWV 29?

Jimmy Boy
Andrew Schulman
2006-09-07 19:38:37 UTC
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You are not refering to the Sinfonia in BWV 29?
No. That's the one based on BWV 1006.

A.
Thomas Wood
2006-09-08 06:27:38 UTC
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Post by Andrew Schulman
Anyone know anything about the arrangement Bach did of the first
movement of the E major violin concerto for organ and strings? I'm not
referring to the Sinfonia based on BWV 1006.
Movements from the harpsichord concerti BWV 1052 and 1053 also exist as
sinfoniae and choruses in various cantatas, with solo organ obbligato, but
Bach wrote no organ/orchestra version of the violin concerto BWV 1042. He
did, however, arrange it for harpsichord and strings: BWV 1054 (in D).

Tom Wood
Andrew Schulman
2006-09-08 18:06:07 UTC
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Post by Thomas Wood
Movements from the harpsichord concerti BWV 1052 and 1053 also exist as
sinfoniae and choruses in various cantatas, with solo organ obbligato, but
Bach wrote no organ/orchestra version of the violin concerto BWV 1042. He
did, however, arrange it for harpsichord and strings: BWV 1054 (in D).
I arranged BWV 1042 for guitar and strings, using parts of BWV 1054 for
the guitar solo part where they work better than the violin part. I
play it in E BTW.

IIRC he arranged the first movement of BWV 1042 as a Sinfonia for Organ
and Strings, and that It was performed in 1729 in Leipzig for a civic
ceremony. I remember reading this somewhere about 10 years ago when I
first did the arrangement and that's why I posted about it, I'm still
looking for the source.

Andrew
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Andrew Schulman
2006-09-08 21:21:27 UTC
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Post by Andrew Schulman
Anyone know anything about the arrangement Bach did of the first
movement of the E major violin concerto for organ and strings? I'm not
referring to the Sinfonia based on BWV 1006.
OK, found the source and what I remembered was mostly accurate;
unfortunately, the author was not accurate.

The book is "Bach's Orchestra" by Charles Sanford Terry, Oxford
University Press, 1932. Here is the quote from page 173:

"Little more than a fortnight later (27 August), Bach gave St.
Nicholas's another feast of concerted organ music. The occasion was of
particular solemnity and pomp; for the burgomaster and councillors were
present to inaugurate their year of office. Bach's normal orchestra,
accordingly, was augmented by the trumpeter Reiche, his colleagues, and
the drums. The cantata (No. 29) opened with the first movement of the
Violin Concerto in E, adapted for organ and orchestra, an exhilarating
sinfonia..."

First, I remembered 1729 but the year in question was 1731. And, as I
and others have pointed out here already, this Sinfonia is an
arrangement of the Preludio from Partita III for Unaccompanied Violin,
BWV 1006, not the first movement of Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1042.

Andrew

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