Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031
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2. Siciliano
Performed by Alex Murray (traverso) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) 3. Allegro
Performed by Alex Murray (traverso) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) |
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The Sonata in E♭ major for flute or recorder and harpsichord, probably by J. S. Bach (BWV 1031), is a sonata in 3 movements:
- Allegro moderato (in E♭ major)
- Siciliano (in G minor) – in key, unusually, this movement is in a non-relative key to the home key, but the mediant minor (relative key to the dominant key)
- Allegro (in E♭ major)
The Bach scholar Robert Marshall has argued that the sonata was composed by J. S. Bach, since it was attributed to him by two independent sources, Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the manuscript copy of the work in his handwriting, and Christian Friedrich Penzel, Bach's last pupil. [1]. The musicologist Jeanne Swack has suggested alternatively that BWV 1031 was based on a previous work for flute in E-flat by Johann Joachim Quantz (QC2:38 in the Augbach catalog), which survives in a version for flute and obbligato harpsichord and in another version for flute, violin, and continuo. The similarities suggest, she says, either that Quantz composed both QC2:38 and BWV 1031, or that Bach (or another composer) used the Quantz original as the basis for BWV 1031, which, she notes, is "much more complex and extensive."[2].
External links
- Sonatas for Flute and Clavier, BWV 1030-32: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Sonata for flute & keyboard in E♭ major, BWV 1031: Allmusic description
- ↑ Marshall, Robert L. "The compositions for solo flute: a reconsideration of their authenticity and chronology'." The music of Johann Sebastian Bach: the sources, the style, the significance (New York, 1989) (1989): 224-5.
- ↑ Swack, Jeann "Quantz and the Sonata in E, major for flute and cembalo, BWV1031," Early Music (1995) XXIII (1): 31-53.