Bach`s sonatas and partitas for Solo Violin

fafi · Newbie Alert Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1

hello ,I am new but today foudn this great forum and I hurry to ask one question:

Do you know what are differences between sonatas and partitas for Solo Violin ???

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admin · Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

Partita was originally the name for a single instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau and later German composers (notably Johann Sebastian Bach) used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.

J. S. Bach wrote two sets of Partitas for different instruments. Those for solo keyboard the composer famously published as his Opus 1 (known as the Clavier-Übung I). One additional suite in B minor, the Overture in the French Style (often simply called French Overture) is sometimes also considered a Partita (see French Suites). Bach's Partitas are sometimes known as "German Suites", in analogy with the "national" naming of the English and French Suites.

Bach also wrote three partitas for solo violin in 1720 which he paired with sonatas.
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ty8131990 · Tadpole Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 23

If you're interested in Sonata's and partitia's, a good piece to listen to would be Adagio from Sonata No.1 and Chaconne from Partita No.2. Make sure you get the recording played on a "Bach" bow. I can't bare listen to polyphonic arpeggios on a French bow.