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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.
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 ...
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.
Partita for Violin No. 2, BWV 1004; Partita for Violin No. 3, BWV 1006; Cello. Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012; Flute. Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013;
Professor Helga Thoene suggests that this partita, and especially its last movement, was a tombeau written in memory of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (who died in 1720), [2] though this theory is controversial. [3] Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne "the greatest structure for solo violin that exists". [4]
Metrical sign is 3 4), with a canon at the 12th between the flute (plus first violins) and the bass; Bourrée I/II (In B minor. Metrical sign is ) Polonaise / Double (In B minor. Metrical sign for both is 3 4); the flute part is marked "Moderato e staccato" and the first violin part "lentement" (slowly) Menuet (In B minor. Metrical sign is 3 4)
A recording of Grumiaux's performance of one movement from Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, the "Gavotte en rondeaux" from the Partita No. 3, is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft, as a sample of the culture of Earth. [18] This recording was chosen by renowned scientist Carl Sagan.
Ferruccio Busoni made a piano transcription of the chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, as did Johannes Brahms and others. For more Bach transcriptions by Busoni, see: List of adaptations by Ferruccio Busoni#Transcriptions (BV B 20 to 115) Bach-Busoni Editions