Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045

Sinfonia in D major
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Key	D major
Catalogue	BWV 1045
Year	1746
Period	Baroque
Genre	Concerto/Sinfonia
Composed	1742–1746
Movements	1
Scoring	Violin, 3 Trumpets, Timpani, 2 Oboes Strings, and Continuo

Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045,^{[lower-alpha 1]} specifically known as, Violin Concerto movement BWV 1045, is an orchestral work for solo violin, three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, strings and Continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach.^[1] A late work composed in Leipzig between c. 1742 and 1746,^[2] surviving only as a fragment,^[3][4] the Concerto is often considered a sinfonia of a lost cantata.^[5][6][7]

Eric David Mackerness in Music Review described BWV 1045 as "second rate Bach" and violinistically "unmanageable".^[8][9]

Notes

1. "BWV" is Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, a thematic catalogue of Bach's works.

References

1. John Butt (26 June 1997). The Cambridge Companion to Bach. Cambridge University Press. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-521-58780-8.
2. Konrad Küster (1999). Bach Handbuch (in German). Bärenreiter. pp. 381–. ISBN 978-3-476-01717-8. Kantaten-Sinfonia BWV 1045 Als Sonderfall in Bachs späterem Schaffen steht diese Komposition da: 150 Takte, die auf sechs ...
3. Maarten 't Hart (15 January 2013). Bach und ich (in German). Piper ebooks. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-3-492-96034-2. Von BWV 1045 besitzen wir nur ein Fragment ...
4. Michael Marissen (1 July 1999). The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Princeton University Press. pp. 68–. ISBN 1-4008-2165-7. ... in the D-major Sinfonia, BWV 1045, surviving only as a fragment ...
5. Sir Nicholas Kenyon (17 March 2011). The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach. Faber & Faber. pp. 355–. ISBN 978-0-571-27200-6. Then, slightly out of place here, there is an isolated work featuring a violin solo, the Movement BWV 1045 which is a late survival from 1743–6, with three trumpets and timpani; it's an effective piece, doubtless intended as the sinfonia of a ...
6. Alfred Dürr (2005). The Cantatas of J.S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. Oxford University Press. pp. 793–. ISBN 978-0-19-816707-5. Only the introductory ... In the Bach literature, this fragment is sometimes described as the opening of a violin concerto in D, but the heading of the autograph score (c. 1743/6) clearly ...
7. Martin Geck (1997). Bachs Orchesterwerke: Bericht über das 1. Dortmunder Bach-Symposion 1996 (in German). Klangfarben Musikverlag. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-3-932676-04-8. Zur Rechnungsgrundlage: Von den 29 Kompositionen BWV 1041-1069 werden nicht mitgezählt die einzeln überlieferte Sinfonia einer Kantate (BWV 1045) und das nur neuntaktige Fragment des Cembalokonzerts BWV 1059. Für die ...
8. Mark Katz (9 February 2006). The Violin: A Research and Information Guide. Taylor & Francis. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-1-135-57695-0.
9. Alberto Basso (1979). Frau Musika: 1723-1750 (in Italian). EDT srl. pp. 774–. ISBN 978-88-7063-028-2.

External links

• Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project