• Source: Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039

The Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039, is a trio sonata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is a version, for a different instrumentation, of the Gamba Sonata, BWV 1027. The first, second and fourth movement of these sonatas also exist as a trio sonata for organ.




Historical context


This sonata, scored for two transverse flutes and continuo, is one of the few trio sonatas that can genuinely be attributed to Bach. Although traditionally thought to have been composed during Bach's period in Weimar or Cöthen, Bach scholars have revised that dating based on an analysis of the extant manuscripts and on stylistic considerations. According to Wolff (1994), the trio sonata was composed between 1736 and 1741 in Leipzig, where, since 1729, Bach had been director of the Collegium Musicum, a chamber music society performing weekly at the Café Zimmermann. The version for viola da gamba and harpsichord, BWV 1027, as well as the other two sonatas for this ensemble, are dated by Laurence Dreyfus, Christoph Wolff and others to the same period.




Movements



BWV 1039 has four movements:

Adagio
Allegro ma non presto
Adagio e piano
Presto




Trio sonata for organ


Apart from the sonata for viola da gamba and the trio sonata for two flutes and continuo, there is a third version of the sonata for organ—the trio sonata in G major in three movements (BWV 1027a and BWV 1039a). The first two movements are organ transcriptions of the first two movements of BWV 1039; while its last movement is a transcription of the fourth movement of BWV 1027. According to the Bach scholar Russell Stinson, the transcription for organ was not made by Bach, but probably by Johann Peter Kellner. Pieter Dirksen has surmised that although the Gamba sonata BWV 1027 corresponds to one of Bach's own autograph manuscript from 1740, the other sources, one of them with Bach's son Johann Gottfried Bernhard as scribe, probably date from 1735 or later. Stinson also thinks it possible that the organ arrangement could originate from a lost trio sonata in G major for two violins and basso continuo.




Selected recordings






= Two transverse flutes

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Bart Kuijken, Marc Hantai (transverse flutes), Sigiswald Kuijken (viola da gamba), Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
James Galway, Jeanne Galway (transverse flutes), Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba), Phillip Moll (harpsichord), RCA
Alain Marion, Jean-Pierre Rampal (transverse flutes), Jordi Savall (viol), Robert Veyron-Lacroix (harpsichord), Erato
Frans Brüggen, Leopold Stastny (transverse flutes), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (cello), Herbert Tachezi (harpsichord), Teldec
Ashley Solomon, Andrew Crawford (transverse flutes), Daniel Yeadon (viola da gamba), Neal Peres da Coasta (harpsichord): Florilegium, Channel Productions
Petri Alanko, Hanna Juutilainen (transverse flutes), Jukka Rautasalo (cello), Anssi Mattila (harpsichord), Naxos Records
Lisa Beznosiuk, Stephen Preston (transverse flutes), Charles Medlam (cello), John Toll (harpsichord): London Baroque, Harmonia Mundi
Maxence Larrieu, Kristian Nyquist (transverse flutes), Jean-Michel Tanguy (harpsichord), Pavane Records.
Peter-Lukas Graf, Gaby Pas-Van Riet (transverse flutes), Bruno Canino (harpsichord), Claves.
Lisa Beznosiuk, Rachel Brown (transverse flutes), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/virginals), Hyperion Records.
Emmanuel Pahud, Silvia Careddu (transverse flutes), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord), Warner Classics
Philippe Suzanne, Wilbert Hazelzet (transverse flutes), Jaap Ter Linden (cello), Henk Bouman (harpsichord): Musica Antiqua Köln, Archiv Produktion




= Organ

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Kevin Bowyer (organ), four movements, Vol. 8, Complete Organ Works of J. S. Bach, Nimbus Records
Günther Fetz, Rudolf Scheidegger (chamber organs), Edition Clarino




= Other instruments

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Elisabeth Ingenhousz (violin), Abigail Graham (oboe), Barbara Kernig (cello) Miwako Hannya (harpsichord): Ensemble Il Quadrifoglio, Brilliant Classics
James Galway (transverse flute), Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Moray Welsh (cello), Phillip Moll (harpsichord), RCA
Ashley Solomon (transverse flute), Bojan Čičić (violin), Reiko Ichise (viola da gamba), Terence Charlston (harpsichord); Florilegium, Channel Productions
Maria Tecla Andreotti (transverse flute), Christophe Coin (viola da gamba), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Jan Willem Jansen (harpsichord), Laborie
Marc Hantaï (transverse flute), Jérôme Hantaï (viola da gamba), Ageet Zweistra (cello), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), Veritas
Walter van Hauwe, Lorenzo Cavasanti (alto flutes), Caroline Boersma (cello), Sergio Ciomei (positive organ): Tripla Concordia, Arcana
Ramon Ortega Quero, Tamar Inbar (oboes), Luise Buchberger (cello), Peter Kofler (harpsichord), Berlin Classics




Notes






References


Scores, manuscripts and catalogues

"Sonata, G BWV 1039". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2019-12-05.
"Trio, G BWV 1027 / Anh. II 46→". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2015-11-01.
Dürr, Alfred; Kobayashi, Yoshitake, eds. (1998). Bach Werke Verzeichnis: Kleine Ausgabe – Nach der von Wolfgang Schmieder vorgelegten 2. Ausgabe [Bach Works Catalogue: Small Edition – After Wolfgang Schmieder's 2nd edition. (Preface also in English.)] (in German). Kirsten Beißwenger (collaborator). (BWV2a ed.). Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel. ISBN 9783765102493.
Rust, Wilhelm, ed. (1860), Kammermusik: Band 1 [Chamber music: Vol. 1], Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel
Commentary

Cyr, Mary (1989), "Review: Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord (BWV1027-1029) by J. S. Bach, Hans Eppstein, Lucy Robinson, Laurence Dreyfus and Jean-Louis Charbonnier", Early Music, 17: 106, 108, 110, 113, doi:10.1093/earlyj/XVII.1.106, JSTOR 3127270
Dirksen, Pieter, ed. (2010), Sonatas / Trios / Concertos, Introduction, commentary and on-line material, Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Organ Works – Urtext, vol. 5, Breitkopf & Härtel, pp. 14–28, EB 8805
Stinson, Russell (1989), "Three organ-trio transcriptions from the Bach-circle: Keys to a lost Bach chamber work", in Franklin, Don O. (ed.), Bach Studies, Cambridge University Press, pp. 125–159
Stinson, Russell, ed. (1992), "Keyboard Transcriptions from the Bach Circle", Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 69: vii–ix
Williams, Peter (2003), The Organ Music of J. S. Bach, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89115-8
Wolff, Christoph (1994), "Bach's Leipzig Chamber Music", Bach: Essays on his life and work, Harvard University Press, pp. 223–238, ISBN 0674059263
Wollny, Peter (1996), "Zur Überlieferung der Instrumentalwerke Johann Sebastian Bachs: Der Quellenbesitz Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs", Bach-Jahrbuch, 82: 11, 19, doi:10.13141/bjb.v19961179




External links


Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039: performance by the Netherlands Bach Society (video and background information)
Trio Sonata in G major, BWV 1039, Trio in G major, BWV 1027a: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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