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Sinfonia in D major
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Key	D major
Catalogue	BWV 1045
Year	1746 (1746)
Period	Baroque
Genre	Concerto/Sinfonia
Composed	1742 (1742)–1746
Movements	1
Scoring	Violin, 3 Trumpets, Timpani, 2 Oboes Strings, and Continuo

Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045, sometimes referred to as a violin concerto movement (Konzertsatz), is an orchestral work for solo violin, three trumpets, timpani, two oboes, strings and continuo, by Johann Sebastian Bach. A late work composed in Leipzig between c. 1742 and 1746, surviving only as a fragment, the movement is a sinfonia of an otherwise lost cantata. In particular, the piece ends abruptly, with the last two bars (151 and 152) appearing in someone else's hand and attached as a separate page at the end of the manuscript, which is otherwise in Bach's hand. The work features a highly virtuosic concertato part with extensive chordal and arpeggiated passages and at one point reaches an "unusual high for Bach's violin music".

References

1. Butt, John (26 June 1997). The Cambridge Companion to Bach. Cambridge University Press. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-521-58780-8.
2. Küster, Konrad (1999). Bach Handbuch (in German). Bärenreiter. pp. 381–. ISBN 978-3-476-01717-8. Kantaten-Sinfonia BWV 1045 Als Sonderfall in Bachs späterem Schaffen steht diese Komposition da: 150 Takte, die auf sechs ...
3. 't Hart, Maarten (15 January 2013). Bach und ich (in German). Piper ebooks. pp. 167–. ISBN 978-3-492-96034-2. Von BWV 1045 besitzen wir nur ein Fragment ...
4. Marissen, Michael (1 July 1999). The Social and Religious Designs of J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Princeton University Press. pp. 68–. ISBN 1-4008-2165-7. ... in the D-major Sinfonia, BWV 1045, surviving only as a fragment ...
5. Kenyon, Nicholas (17 March 2011). The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach. Faber & Faber. pp. 355–. ISBN 978-0-571-27200-6. Then, slightly out of place here, there is an isolated work featuring a violin solo, the Movement BWV 1045 which is a late survival from 1743–6, with three trumpets and timpani; it's an effective piece, doubtless intended as the sinfonia of a ...
6. Dürr, Alfred (2005). The Cantatas of J.S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text. Oxford University Press. pp. 793–. ISBN 978-0-19-816707-5. Only the introductory ... In the Bach literature, this fragment is sometimes described as the opening of a violin concerto in D, but the heading of the autograph score (c. 1743/6) clearly ...
7. Geck, Martin (1997). Bachs Orchesterwerke: Bericht über das 1. Dortmunder Bach-Symposion 1996 (in German). Klangfarben Musikverlag. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-3-932676-04-8. Zur Rechnungsgrundlage: Von den 29 Kompositionen BWV 1041-1069 werden nicht mitgezählt die einzeln überlieferte Sinfonia einer Kantate (BWV 1045) und das nur neuntaktige Fragment des Cembalokonzerts BWV 1059. Für die ...

External links

• Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045: performance by the Netherlands Bach Society (video and background information)
• Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• "Fragment of a Sinfony for an unknown cantata BWV 1045". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2019-03-13.

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• Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach
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