• Canon for 2 voices / Canon à 2 perpetuus

BWV 1075

^GND

Genre

• Canon

Scoring

unknown

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Date of origin, Work history

• 10 January 1734 (dedication)

• The simple canon was written down by Bach in a "Stammbuch" and later removed from its context. The autograph family register entry (privat property, see original source) is: <i>Canon a 2. perpetuus. </i>| [canon follows] | <i>Leipzig. d. 10. Januar: | 1734.</i> [on the right side:] <i>Dieses wolte seinem Herrn Pathen | zum Andencken beyfügen | Joh: Seb: Bach.</i> (see Dok. I Nr. 167). It is not known to whom this canon was dedicated; among Bach's godchildren ("Herrn Pathen"), who were already adults in 1734, the most likely candidate is Johann Gottfried Walther the Younger (*1712), who attended the University of Jena from 1732 (see Schulze BJ 1967).

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Original sources

Unbekannter Privatbesitz (NL), BWV 1075 [Score]

Additional sources

D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 1167 [Score]

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Edition

NBA VIII/1, S. 3 (Christoph Wolff, 1974) – Critical report (1976), S. 19

Literature

• Schulze BJ 1967, <i>Johann Sebastian Bachs Kanonwidmungen</i>, in: BJ 53 (1967), S. 82–92

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