Thomas Goetschel

Thomas Goetschel – Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord BWV1027-1029 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:14 minutes | 938 MB | Genre: Classical
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The three gamba sonatas were written in the early 1740s. It remains unclear whether Johann Sebastian Bach intended to create a complete cycle (usually made up of six similar works), or whether the individual sonatas simply survived by happenstance and do not in fact form a unit. The assumption that Bach was indeed the composer rests on the fact that the Sonata in G minor (BWV 1029) has survived in Bach’s autograph. The two remaining sonatas, however, exist only as posthumous copies made in the circle of Bach’s sons of a manuscript that must have resembled the sonata penned by Bach himself. Bach’s manuscript can be dated to the beginning of the last decade of the composer’s life based on certain traits particular to his handwriting at that time.

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