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Sonata in B minor

Composer: Graun; Johann Gottlieb (1703-1771)

Instrumentation: Viola da gamba & harpsichord

Author/editor/arranger: O'Loghlin

Publisher: Edition Güntersberg

Format: Sheet music

Product code: G150

Tags: Harpsichord, viola da gamba

£17.40

This subtle and complex work is a significant addition to the rather small repertoire of sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord. The slow, poignant first movement is followed by a rhythmically intricate contrapuntal Allegro, and the work ends with an extended sonata movement on a minuet-like theme. The sonata is an arrangement by Frederick the Great’s gamba virtuoso Ludwig Christian Hesse of a trio by his concertmaster, Graun. It shows the strongly emotional style typical of the composer and his Berlin colleagues, combined with a certain brilliance, but is not techically as demanding as the works which Graun wrote directly for Hesse.

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