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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Bach, Johann Sebastian |
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| Work: | Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C Major, BWV 1061 |
| Year Composed: | 1735 |
| Instrumentation: | 2hpd, str: 8.7.6.5.4 |
| Publishers: |
C.F. Peters Frankfurt Edwin F. Kalmus Schott Music Bärenreiter Verlag Breitkopf & Härtel Edition Peters The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection |
| Duration: | 00:18:00 |
| Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
| Work Category: | Concerto |
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The Concerto in C major for Two Harpsichords, BWV1061, is clearly an original composition and also survives in a version for two harpsichords without ripieno orchestral accompaniment. In this concerto the solo instruments are given greater chance, for display and dialogue, with occasional interpolations from the orchestra. While structural principles remain the same, there is a clearer differentiation between the two harpsichords, as one answer, the other. The first harpsichord start, the A minor Adagio, answered by the second, in a 6/8 movement that dispenses with the orchestra. The first harpsichord states the subject of the fugue that constitutes the last movement, providing the answer and countersubject and the third entry of the subject again in the tonic. The fourth entry is entrusted to the second harpsichord, followed now by a fifth and sixth, after which the strings are first allowed the subject. The movement and the concerto as a whole allows close collaboration rather than competition between the two harpsichords, treated as of equal importance in a closely interwoven texture.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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