Ouverture (Suite) in G Major, JLB 20

Composer: BACH, Johann Ludwig
  • Source for JLB catalog number 
  • J.L. Bach composed this work in 1715, four years after he became Kapellmeister of the court of Meiningen.
  • Nearly all of J.L. Bach’s surviving compositions are vocal works; this is a rare instrumental work we have by the composer. This is not because J.L. Bach didn’t write much instrumental music; since he was a court Kapellmeister, he probably did. We have so many of his choral works because his cousin J.S. Bach preserved and performed them.
  • The work is sometimes designated an overture, sometimes a suite (J.L.B.’s Oxford Music article labels it a suite). The terms were fluid in the composer’s time; both could refer to multimovement instrumental works such as this one.1

Movements 

  1. Vite – Lentement 
  2. Air 
  3. Menuet 
  4. Gavotte 
  5. Air 
  6. Bourrée2

Sources

  1. Christoph Wolff, “Bach, Johann Ludwig,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 6, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278191.
  2. “Rinaldo Allessandrini / Concerto Italiano: Johann Bach: Overtures for Orchestra,” Allmusic, accessed January 6, 2022, https://www.allmusic.com/album/johann-bach-ouvertures-for-orchestra-mw0003320130.

Cut IDs

23442