Johann Sebastian Bach
Capriccio sopra la lontananza BWV 992
Johann Sebastian Bach
Capriccio sopra la lontananza BWV 992
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Editor Hans-Martin Theopold
- Editor Georg von Dadelsen
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN1305
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Description:
Along with his major cycles such as the English and French suites, the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach also left a wealth of single pieces with a great diversity of titles; they stem in large part from his early youth and student period around the years 1700-1710. The title of the present work - translated as 'Capriccio on the departure of his most beloved brother' - reveals that this is programmatic, onomatopoeic music of the kind that was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. In its six short and imaginatively-titled movements Bach shows a different side of himself from the usual polyphonist. Perhaps we owe this piece to the departure of his brother Johann Jacob Bach, who entered service in Sweden in 1704.