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The Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006.1 (formerly 1006), [1] is the last work in Johann Sebastian Bach's set of Sonatas and Partitas.It consists of the following movements:
The surviving autograph manuscript of the sonatas and partitas was made by Bach in 1720 in Köthen, where he was Kapellmeister.As Christoph Wolff comments, the paucity of sources for instrumental compositions prior to Bach's period in Leipzig makes it difficult to establish a precise chronology; nevertheless, a copy made by the Weimar organist Johann Gottfried Walther in 1714 of the Fugue in G ...
Johann Sebastian Bach composed suites, ... Partita for Violin No. 2, BWV 1004; Partita for Violin No. 3, BWV 1006; Cello. Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012; Flute
BWV 1001 – Sonata No. 1 in G minor; BWV 1002 – Partita No. 1 in B minor; BWV 1003 – Sonata No. 2 in A minor; BWV 1004 – Partita No. 2 in D minor; BWV 1005 – Sonata No. 3 in C major; BWV 1006 – Partita No. 3 in E major. BWV 1006a – Suite in E major for solo lute (transcription of Partita No. 3 for solo violin, BWV 1006)
First page of J.S. Bach's Partita for Violin No. 3. Partita (also partie, partia, parthia, or parthie [1]) was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722), his student Christoph Graupner, and Johann Sebastian Bach used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.
Harrison Birtwistle arranged a number of Bach organ works as Bach Measures, for chamber orchestra (1996) Edward Elgar transcribed Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537 for orchestra; Sergei Rachmaninoff made a transcription of the Violin Partita in E major, BWV 1006, including the following movements: prelude, gavotte and gigue.
3 Sonatas and 3 Partitas, for solo violin: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001; Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003; Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (transcription for violin solo by Tedi Papavrami, 2010)
Bach did write several other ouverture (suites) for solo instruments, notably the Cello Suite no. 5, BWV 1011, which also exists in the autograph Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995, the Keyboard Partita no. 4 in D, BWV 828, and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831 for keyboard.