Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata II BWV 1003, Fuga

Bach started composing these works around 1703, while at Weimar, and the set was completed by 1720, when Bach was a Kapellmeister in Köthen.[2] He was almost certainly inspired by Johann Paul von Westhoff’s partitas for solo violin, since he worked alongside Westhoff at Weimar, and the older composer’s pieces share some stylistic similarities with […]

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