• Contrapuntal studies

BWV 1132; BR‑WFB I 1; Fk 39

^GND

Genre

• Canon

Scoring

unknown

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Date of origin, Work history

• ca. 1736-1739 (autographe Partitur, Papier- und Schriftbefund)

• These are joint contrapuntal studies by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. They have been handed down within the fragment of a composition score with trio sonatas by Wilhelm Friedemann (D-Bsa: SA 3650, fol. 2v-3v), see Wollny 2002b

Comment

• The entries are didactic in nature and evidently document a conversation between father and son about technical compositional questions (for contents see BR-WFB, pp. 258).
  There are two possibilities for a more precise dating: J. S. Bach's visit to Dresden at the beginning of December 1736 and W. F. Bach's stay of several weeks in Leipzig in the summer of 1739.

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Original sources

D-Bsa SA 3650 [Score]

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Edition

NBA Supplement, S. 67 (Peter Wollny, 2011)

Literature

• Peter Wollny, <i>Ein Quellenfund in Kiew. Unbekannte Kontrapunktstudien von Johann Sebastian und Wilhelm Friedemann Bach</i>, in: Bach in Leipzig – Leipzig und Bach, S. 275–287, 2002b

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