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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Bach, Johann Sebastian |
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| Work: | Viola da Gamba Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1029 |
| Year Composed: | 1720 |
| Instrumentation: | viola da gamba, hpd |
| Publishers: |
Heugel & Cie Manuscript |
| Duration: | 00:15:00 |
| Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
| Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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Presumably intended by Bach as a set, the three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-29, have survived as separate pieces. The sonatas have the usual texture of Bach's instrumental sonatas, with two upper parts supported by a bass part, the form familiar from the organ Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530. The Viola da Gamba Sonatas have been variously dated, either to about 1720, to Bach's Cöthen period, when the Court Capelle included the bass viol-player Christian Ferdinand Abel, or to the later period in Leipzig, when Bach was occupied with the Collegium musicum, in the repertoire of which the sonatas may have been included.
The Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029, starts with a Vivace movement in which the subject that forms the substance of the movement is entrusted first to the bass viol, impelled forward by its lively figuration. The second of the three movements, a B flat major Adagio, allows the two upper parts to interweave, and this is capped by a final 6/8 G minor Allegro, the opening subject, imitated by the bass viol, marked by its initial repeated notes, and taken up by the lower part in the keyboard.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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