7/11/2023 0 Comments Bach transcriptionsMastroianni published Chaconne The Novel. The Chaconne has been arranged for pedal harp by Skaila Kanga. The Chaconne has also been arranged for harpsichord by Pieter-Jan Belder and for violin plus four voices by Christoph Poppen and the Hilliard Ensemble. Anne Dudley arranged Bach's Chaconne for piano trio, and a recording by the Eroica Trio appears on their Baroque album. Gustav Leonhardt arranged the Partita for harpsichord solo. There are a number of transcriptions of the Chaconne for orchestras of different sizes, including Leopold Stokowski's transcription for a full symphony orchestra. Many guitarists today prefer to play the Chaconne directly from the violin score. The most well-known transcription for guitar is the Segovia transcription. The timbre of the guitar creates new and emotional resonance and unsuspected dynamic gradations in those passages which might have been created purely for the violin as for instance the variations in arpeggi." Marc Pincherle, Secretary of the French Society of Musicology in Paris, wrote in 1930: "If, insofar as certain rapid monodic passages are concerned, opinion is divided between the violin and the guitar as the better medium, the guitar always triumphs in polyphonic passages that is to say almost throughout the entire work. The Chaconne is often performed on guitar. This has been published by the Hofmeister Musikverlag in Leipzig. There is a transcription of the Chaconne for solo cello made by cellist Johann Sebastian Paetsch in 2015. In the preface to his 1955 transcription, John Cook writes: "The Chaconne is sublimely satisfying in its original form, yet many will agree that a single violin is only able to hint at the vast implications of much of this music … It is perhaps not unreasonable to suppose that Bach would have chosen the organ, had he transcribed the Chaconne himself, as the instrument best suited to the scale of his ideas … A good performance on the violin may be taken as the best guide to interpretation on the organ – the two instruments are not without their points in common, and both were beloved of Bach." Further transcriptions are by John Cook, Wilhelm Middelschulte, Walter Henry Goss-Custard (1915–55), and Henri Messerer (1838–1923). The earliest version for organ is by William Thomas Best. Since Bach's time, several transcriptions of the piece have been made for other instruments, particularly for the piano (including those by Ferruccio Busoni, Alexander Siloti, Joachim Raff, and Rudolf Lutz), and for the piano left-hand (by Johannes Brahms, Paul Wittgenstein, and Géza Zichy).įelix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann each wrote piano accompaniments for the work.Ĭarl Reinecke transcribed the piece for piano duet. Raymond Erickson has identified approximately two hundred transcriptions and arrangements of Bach's Ciaccona. ![]() If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind." Johannes Brahms in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece, "On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. It's a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect." He played the piece busking in L'Enfant Plaza for The Washington Post. Violinist Joshua Bell has said the Chaconne is "not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but one of the greatest achievements of any man in history. Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne "the greatest structure for solo violin that exists". Professor Helga Thoene suggests that this partita, and especially its last movement, was a tombeau written in memory of Bach's first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (who died in 1720), though this theory is controversial. Performance time of the whole partita varies between 26 and 32 minutes, depending on the approach and style of the performer. The final movement is written in the form of variations, and lasts approximately as long as the first four movements combined. Except for the ciaccona, the movements are dance types of the time, and they are frequently listed by their French names: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, and Chaconne.
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