Examples are the "scalar arch" motif in the first measures, repeated in fragments in the whole sonata, and the descending half-step motif, which appears at the beginning of every movement. īach also used motivic development to unify his work, as his father did. The first movement is slow ( Poco adagio), and the second is faster ( Allegro), the third (Allegro) is slightly more faster than the second, so the result, when played, is unified acoustically. The sonata uses the slow–fast–fast movement format. This format reflects the trends of this time in German culture. The biggest difference with his father's only work for unaccompanied flute, the Partita in A minor, BWV 1013, a suite of four dance movements (Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Bouree anglaise), are that in the sonata, there is nearly no indication of dance (except the second movement), and its three movements (Poco adagio, Allegro, Allegro) do not follow the standard format of fast–slow–fast, but slow–fast–fast, a format also shown in eleven more of his sonatas between 17. This sonata is an early prototype of this change. Also, in this particular sonata, Bach used the silence technique, leaving twice an entire measure without notes (Movement 1, measure 91, and movement 3, measure 93), so, as there is no accompanying instruments, in these two measures, there is complete silence. He continued to use ornaments, which plenty of them exist in his work, in a combination of all the styles of this period (French, German and Italian). Influenced by them, Bach's style changed: besides signs of his father's Baroque style, he included features of the new galant style, such as slow harmonic motion. The time this sonata was written, was a time that Bach, because of his position as an harpsichordist of the King, was surrounded by many well-established musicians, like Johann Joachim Quantz, the king's personal flute teacher and one of his many composers. Today, for various practical reasons, there are also editions that add an accompaniment, for example a piano. This may explain the publication date of 1763, nearly two decades after the sonata was written. It may have been published without the king's knowledge. But at the time, compositions written for the Prussian king were not permitted to be published and made public.
Indeed, it was printed during the king's lifetime. Some scholars claim that this sonata was intended for the king.
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In 1747, he composed a series of works for the instrument, including this sonata. Bach devoted several compositions to the flauto traverso. The king was also a flutist, and had many composers write flute compositions for him.
History īach wrote this sonata in Berlin around 1747, when he was a chamber harpsichordist of Frederick the Great. It is the sole flute work by Bach that was printed and published during his lifetime. Bach's A minor partita, one of the most significant works for unaccompanied flute before the 20th century. The sonata is considered, along with Telemann's Fantasias for Solo Flute and J. The Sonata for Solo Flute in A minor, Wq.132, H 562, is a sonata for flute, without Basso Continuo or accompanying instruments, composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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