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Topic: Bach 1052 variations (Read 2056 times)

i_am_joey_jo

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Bach 1052 variations

on: April 22, 2011, 02:10:43 PM

Hi there,

How is it that a same piece of music can have so many variations. I've heard the Harpsichord Concertos and then the same thing with Oboe L'Amour and the Harpsichord playing Continuo. Then a violin concerto of the same piece of music, is this normal?

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cygnusdei

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Re: Bach 1052 variations

Reply #1 on: April 23, 2011, 01:15:04 AM

The other versions are reconstructions based on a conjecture, that the harpsichord concertos are transcriptions of earlier, existing concertos for other instruments.

There are at least three pairs of surviving manuscripts that fit the bill:

Violin concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 --> Harpsichord concerto in G minor, BWV 1058
Violin concerto in E, BWV 1042 --> Harpsichord concerto in D, BWV 1054
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV 1043 --> Concerto for 2 harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1062

The popular Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 is a reconstruction of the surviving manuscript of the concerto for 2 harpsichords.