Concerto for Violin and Oboe BWV 1060R

Composer: BACH, Johann Sebastian
  • Like the Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064R, this piece is a scholarly reconstruction of a lost work by Bach. It was retrofitted from Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060, which Bach arranged during his Leipzig years from an earlier concerto for (probably) violin and oboe.1
  • Bach wrote the two-harpsichord version of this concerto around 1736. It is one of a series of harpsichord concertos Bach wrote (BWV 1060-1065), almost all of which were arranged from earlier compositions he’d written.2
  • The Netherlands Bach-Gesellschaft suggests that Bach might have written the original version around 1719, when he was working at the court of Prince Leopold in Cöthen. 

Sources

  1. Christoph Wolff and Walter Emery, “Bach, Johann Sebastian,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 18, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278195.
  2. Ibid.

Cut IDs

41160