j.c. bach - concerto for harpsichord or piano and strings in e flat major, movement 1 quizlet

a passionate submersion in heavenly love.'Ĭomposer directing cantata from gallery in a church, engraving from Musicalisches Lexicon, Johann Gottfried Walther, 1732Īs Wolff (1994) comments, this shows the subtleties in Bach's process of arrangement. In the aria, the lines of the alto soloist and organ weave around each in what Alfred Dürr has described as 'undoubtedly one of the most inspired vocal pieces that Bach ever wrote. The scoring in BWV 169 includes two oboes and a taille as ripieno instruments in the sinfonia and an oboe d'amore in the aria. The cantatas, part of a series where Bach developed the obbligato organ as a chamber or orchestral instrument, were first performed in October and November 1726 in the Thomaskirche, within two weeks of each other. The first and second movements of BWV 1053 corresponds to the opening Sinfonia (in D major) and alto aria 'Stirb in mir, Welt' (in B minor) in Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169 and the finale to the opening Sinfonia (in E major) in Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49. As with the harpsichord concerto BWV 1052, all the movements had previous incarnations in Leipzig cantatas written ten or more years prior to the 1738 or 1739 autograph manuscript, with the part of the melody instrument written for obbligato organ. Like the other harpsichord concertos, BWV 1053 is generally agreed to be a transcription of a lost instrumental concerto. In the centre is Café Zimmermann, where the Collegium Musicum held weekly chamber music concerts

Historical context Johann Georg Schreiber, 1720: Engraving of Katherinenstrasse in Leipzig. The movements were reworkings of parts of two of Bach's church cantatas composed in 1726: the solo obbligato organ played the sinfonias for the two fast movements and the remaining alto aria provided the slow movement. It is the second of Bach's keyboard concerto composed in 1738, scored for keyboard and baroque string orchestra.

The Harpsichord Concerto in E major, BWV 1053, is a concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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J.c. bach - concerto for harpsichord or piano and strings in e flat major, movement 1 quizlet