Bach: Capriccio sopra la lontananza, BWV 992
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- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Editor: Georg von Dadelsen
- Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992
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- Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 11
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Along with his Major cycles such as the English and French suites, the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach also left a wealth of single pieces with a great diversity of titles; they stem in large part from his early youth and student period around the years 1700-1710. The title of the present work – translated as "Capriccio on the departure of his most beloved brother" – reveals that this is programmatic, onomatopoeic music of the kind that was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. in its six short and imaginatively-titled movements Bach shows a different side of himself from the usual polyphonist. Perhaps we owe this piece to the departure of his brother Johann Jacob Bach, who entered service in Sweden in 1704.