Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German
composer and musician of the Baroque period. He
enriched established German styles through his mastery
of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and
his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from
abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's
compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the
Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions,
and over three hundred cantatas of which approximately
two hundred survive. His...(+)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German
composer and musician of the Baroque period. He
enriched established German styles through his mastery
of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and
his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from
abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's
compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the
Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions,
and over three hundred cantatas of which approximately
two hundred survive. His music is revered for its
technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual
depth
The first documented evidence of Bach's engagement with
the concerto genre can be dated to around 1709, during
his second period in Weimar, when he made a hand copy
of the continuo part of Albinoni's Sinfonie e concerti
a 5, Op. 2 (1700). Earlier compositions had been
brought back to Weimar from Italy by the deputy
Capellmeister, Johann Wilhelm Drese, during his stay
there in 1702–1703. In 1709 the virtuoso violinist
Johann Georg Pisendel visited Weimar: he had studied
with Torelli and is likely to have acquainted Bach with
more of the Italian concerto repertoire. In the same
year Bach also copied out all the parts of the double
violin concerto in G major, TWV 52:G2, of Georg Philipp
Telemann, a work that he might have acquired through
Pisendel. Bach would also have known Telemann well then
since he was court musician at Eisenach, Bach's
birthplace. Telemann's concerto for solo violin, TWV
51:g1, transcribed by Bach for harpsichord as BWV 985,
comes from the same series of Eisenach concertos as the
double violin concerto; moreover, as explained in Zohn
(2008), there is evidence that the slow movement of
Telemann's oboe concerto TWV 51:G2, also from the
series, was borrowed and adapted by Bach for the
opening sinfonia of the cantata Ich steh mit einem Fuß
im Grabe, BWV 156 and the slow movement of the
harpsichord concerto in F minor, BWV 1056, both dating
from his period in Leipzig. Telemann also had a
documented social connection with Bach: in March 1714
he was godparent at the baptism in Weimar of Bach's
second son Carl Phillip Emanuel.
Bach composed his Concerto for Keyboard in G Minor (BWV
985) after Georg Philipp Telemann's Violin Concerto
(TWV 51:g21).
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_transcriptions_
for_organ_and_harpsichord_(Bach)).
Although originally written for Harpsichord, I created
this Interpretation of the Concerto in G Minor (BWV
985) for Flute & Concert (Pedal) Harp.
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