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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: Preludio; Loure; Gavotte en Rondeau; Menuets (I and II) Bourrée; Gigue; It takes about 15–18 minutes to perform.
Andrés Segovia was famous for his playing arrangements of Bach works transcribed for classical guitar, such as his very difficult Chaconne from the Violin Partita in D minor. Arnold Schoenberg arranged for orchestra Bach's organ Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major St Anne, BWV 552.
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 ...
BWV 550 – Prelude and Fugue in G major; BWV 551 – Prelude and Fugue in A minor; BWV 552 – Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major ("St. Anne") (part of Clavier-Übung III) BWV 553 – Eight Short Preludes and Fugues – Prelude and Fugue in C major (spurious, possibly by Johann Tobias Krebs) [7]
This offered a unique identification of all Bach's known works, a system that was quickly adopted, for instance, by the biographers: Philipp Spitta used it complementarily to the Peters edition's numbering for the BG volumes that had appeared when he was writing his Bach-biography in the second half of the 19th century (e.g. "B. G., III., p ...
Johann Sebastian Bach composed suites, ... lute, violin, cello and flute, and ... Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998; Violin
BWV 545 – Prelude and Fugue in C major; BWV 545a – Prelude and Fugue in C major (alternative version of BWV 545) BWV 545b – Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat major (alternative version of BWV 545) [2] BWV 546 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor; BWV 547 – Prelude and Fugue in C major "9/8" BWV 548 – Prelude and Fugue in E minor "Wedge"
The concerto transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach date from his second period at the court in Weimar (1708–1717). Bach transcribed for organ and harpsichord a number of Italian and Italianate concertos, mainly by Antonio Vivaldi, but with others by Alessandro Marcello, Benedetto Marcello, Georg Philipp Telemann and the musically talented Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar.