Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2007/01

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A Bach question.
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:31:33 -0500

Dear Oliver,

Unfortunately, "Andante from Six Sonatas" can refer to any of numerous
CPE Bach works including keyboard works, organ works, and works for solo
instrument and keyboard (primarily violin and flute, I believe).
Listening to the midi recording you provided, I tend to lean towards the
organ works, but cannot find an Andante that matches (although I hardly
did an exhaustive search). It certainly doesn't sound characteristic of
CPE Bach's keyboard writing to me and I am not entirely convinced it is,
in fact, by CPE Bach at all, but I've never spent any time with the
organ works.

My understanding is that the complete collection of CPE Bach works are
still in the process of being published, but I do believe the keyboard
works and organ works are now out and should be at the nearest good
music library near you. I haven't explored these volumes in a few years,
though, and am currently without access to a good music library, so my
memory may be a bit faulty.

Best of luck,

-Adam

Oliver Seely wrote:
> The "Andante from Six Sonatas" by C.P.E. Bach for wind quintet can be
> found in a collection edited by Himie Voxman but I am unable to find
> an opus number so as to be able definitively to identify it on my Web
> site. I am embarrased to say that for a couple of years I had
> identified it as having been composed by J.S. Bach, an error only
> recently corrected. The original piece is probably hidden somewhere
> on Pierre Schwob's site, but in playing various Andantes from the
> collection of sonatas shown there I still can't make a connection.
>
> Can someone here give me a lead to the correct identification?
>
> Here is a link to the MIDI file:
>
> http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/bachcpe/andante6sonatas/bchasswq.mid
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Oliver

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