Trio Sonata for Two Flutes (W. F. Bach)

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The Trio Sonata for Two Flutes in A minor, F. 49, BR B15, is one of three trio sonatas for paired flutes and basso continuo composed c. 1740 by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach while organist at the Dresden Sophienkirche. [1] The manuscript is in the Central State Archives Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv. [1]

There are two movements:

  1. Allegro
  2. Larghetto (fragment)

An attempt to complete the second movement and add a third was published in the 1990s. [2]

It has been recorded by Jean-Pierre Rampal, with Isaac Stern on violin, taking the second flute part. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sadie, Stanley, ed. (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2. Oxford University Press. pp. 383, 386. ISBN   978-0-19-517067-2.
  2. Schulenberg, David (2010). The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Eastman Studies in Music). University of Rochester Press. p. 308. ISBN   978-1-58-046359-1.
  3. CBS Masterworks MK 37813, and Sony SMK 64509: with John Steele Ritter, harpsichord, and Leslie Parnas, cello.