Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto
for harpsichord and strings in D minor BWV 1052a
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Concerto
for harpsichord and strings in D minor BWV 1052a
- Instrumentation 2 Pianos 4 Hands
- Composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Editor Werner Breig
- Edition Piano reduction Download (Urtext)
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA5231-90-DL
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Description:
In the spring of 1729, Bach took over the direction of the so-called "Scottish Collegium Musicum", a student-bourgeois music association. The concertos for harpsichord are certainly among the most remarkable results of this task. Today it is considered certain that almost all of these concertos were created by transcribing concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).
When Johann Sebastian Bach created the six-part opus of harpsichord concertos BWV 1052-1057 around 1738, he placed the Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 at the head, the model for which has always and with good reason been assumed to be a lost violin concerto in the same key. This concerto had already served twice before as a model for transcriptions.
The second "preliminary work" for BWV 1052 is the harpsichord concerto presented here, which was published for the first time by Wilhelm Rust in 1869 in volume 17 of the Bach Society's Complete Edition and which was given the number 1052a in the BWV. As the scribe of the main source, the set of parts Mus. ms. St 350 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, was Johann Sebastian Bach, and he accordingly assessed the piece as an authentic early version of the concerto BWV 1052. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has since been recognized as the author of the parts, who is also generally regarded as the author today.
When Johann Sebastian Bach created the six-part opus of harpsichord concertos BWV 1052-1057 around 1738, he placed the Concerto in D minor BWV 1052 at the head, the model for which has always and with good reason been assumed to be a lost violin concerto in the same key. This concerto had already served twice before as a model for transcriptions.
The second "preliminary work" for BWV 1052 is the harpsichord concerto presented here, which was published for the first time by Wilhelm Rust in 1869 in volume 17 of the Bach Society's Complete Edition and which was given the number 1052a in the BWV. As the scribe of the main source, the set of parts Mus. ms. St 350 of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, was Johann Sebastian Bach, and he accordingly assessed the piece as an authentic early version of the concerto BWV 1052. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has since been recognized as the author of the parts, who is also generally regarded as the author today.