- Bach’s Concerto for Three Violins, BWV 1064, is actually a lost work that has been reconstructed. Its existence has been extrapolated from 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 three-violin original 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
- 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.
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