Capriccio sopra la lontananza, BWV 992 [HL:51481375]

Capriccio sopra la lontananza, BWV 992 [HL:51481375]

Henle Urtext Edition

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888680688851
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12
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888680688851
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Softcover. Edition Without Fingering
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Edition Without Fingering. Henle Music Folios
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Along with his major cycles such as the English and French suites, the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach also left a wreath of single pieces with a great diversity of titles; they stem in large part from his early youth and student period around the years 1700-1710. The title of the present work – translated as “Capriccio on the departure of his most beloved brother” – reveals that this is programmatic, onomatopoeic music of the kind that was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. In its six short and imaginatively-titled movements Bach shows a different side of himself from the usual polyphonist. Perhaps we owe this piece to the departure of his brother Johann Jacob Bach, who entered service in Sweden in 1704.