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BWV 987
Apart from Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, his orchestral keyboard concertos and Organ concerto (Bach), his solo organ concertos, Johann Sebastian Bach composed keyboard concertos for unaccompanied harpsichord: * Most of Weimar concerto transcriptions (Bach), his Weimar concerto transcriptions, over twenty arrangements of Italian and Italianate orchestral concertos which he produced around 1713–1714 when he was employed in Weimar, were written for solo harpsichord (BWV 592a and 972–987). * Two decades later, some ten years after he had become in Leipzig, he wrote a concerto for two harpsichords, BWV 1061a, which was later orchestrated as BWV 1061. * The Italian Concerto (Bach), ''Italian Concerto'', BWV 971, was published in 1735 as part of his ''Clavier-Übung II''. Weimar concerto transcriptions In his Weimar period, Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed Italian and Italianate concertos. Most, if not all, of the concerto transcriptions for unacc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Concerto (Bach)
The ''Italian Concerto'', BWV 971, originally titled ''Concerto nach Italiænischen Gusto'' (''Concerto in the Italian taste''), is a three-movement concerto for two- manual harpsichord solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and published in 1735 as the first half of Clavier-Übung II (the second half being the ''French Overture''). The ''Italian Concerto'' has become popular among Bach's keyboard works, and has been widely recorded both on the harpsichord and the piano. Context An Italian concerto relies upon the contrasting roles of different groups of instruments in an ensemble; Bach imitates this effect by creating contrasts using the ''forte'' and ''piano'' manuals of a two-manual harpsichord throughout the piece. Related works Along with the ''French Overture'' and some of the ''Goldberg Variations'', this is one of the few works by Bach which specifically require a 2-manual harpsichord. However, it is not unusual in being a solo keyboard work based on Italian concer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |