Concerto for Three Harpsichords in C Major, BWV 1064

Composer: BACH, Johann Sebastian
  • Bach’s Concerto for Three Harpsichords, BWV 1064, a Leipzig-era work which bears signs that Bach arranged it from an earlier concerto he’d written for three violins.
  • Bach probably wrote the original version (probably for three violins and orchestra) when he was working at the court of Prince Leopold in Cöthen, where the demand for instrumental music was considerable.
  • Musicologists have reconstructed the Concerto for Three Violins from the surviving version for three harpsichords. The reconstruction is sometimes distinguished as “BWV 1064R.”1 

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.

Cut IDs

41628