J.S. Bach - Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1044 (c. 1740)

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. Please support my channel: Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, BWV 1044 (c. 1740) Copyist: Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720-1774) I. Allegro (0:00) [based on the Prelude from the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894] II. Adagio ma non tanto e dolce (8:29) [based on the 2nd movement of the Organ Sonata No.3 in D minor, BWV 527] III. Alla breve (14:25) [based on the Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894] Lisa Beznosiuk, flute Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin Paul Nicholson, harpsichord Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Bach based the Triple Concerto on two earlier compositions. The outer movements of BWV 1044 are based on a lost model which was also a model for the Prelude and Fugue in A minor for solo harpsichord, BWV 894. However, BWV 894 is listed as the model for the outer movements of BWV 1044. The middle movement of BWV 1044 is based on the middle movement of the Trio Sonata for Organ in D minor, BWV 527, or on an earlier model for the middle movements of the concerto and the organ sonata. Regarding the origin of the models for BWV 1044, BWV 894 was copied by Johann Bernhard Bach the Younger between 1707 and 1715 and by Johann Tobias Krebs from 1710 to 1717. Although their copies of the composition survive, neither is its earliest known version; an earlier reading of BWV 894 is found in copies by Johann Peter Kellner (1725) and Johann Nikolaus Mempell (mid-18th century). In 1970 Hans Eppstein argued that the lost model for BWV 894 may have been a keyboard concerto, but this cannot be demonstrated conclusively. The middle movement of the Third Sonata (BWV 527/2) was based on an earlier model which predated the earliest version of the sonata’s first movement, probably composed during the 1720s. Dietrich Kilian, editor of the New Bach Edition volume which contains the Triple Concerto, assumes that Bach composed the concerto after 1726 (most likely in his later years)