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A 5 page research paper that discusses a sonata in G minor that has been attributed to both J.S. Bach and his son C.P.E. Bach. The writer discusses the controversy and provides analysis of the work, relating it to characteristics of the Baroque period. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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years, it was thought that the work designated in the Bach Werke Verzeichnis as BWV 1020 was the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. However, today many musical scholars feels
that Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach, one of Johanns many sons, actually composed this sonata while serving as a harpsichordist at the court of Crown Prince Frederick (CPE Bach, 2003).
Those who attribute the sonata to CPE Bach give it the designation H542.5. To add to the mystery, while it is listed as an "oboe sonata" by some scholars, it
has also been listed as a violin sonata, as well; however, the absence of double stops and any notes below the lowest note possible on the flute have given credit
to the idea that it was meant to be a sonata for flute and harpsichord (CPE Bach, 2003). Three sources are known for the G minor sonata (BWV1020/H542.5) (Baxendale, 2001).
One of these dates from the mid-eighteenth century and one from roughly one hundreds years later clearly attributes the work to Johann Sebastian Bach (Baxendale, 2001). The third was
prepared by CPE Bachs copyist and states "Signore CPE Bach" (Baxendale, 2001). The main argument against J.S. Bachs authorship is that the work contains numerous features that are uncharacteristic of
J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that this work is indicative of the period in which CPE
Bach was trying to assert his own identity as a composer (Baxendale, 2001). On the other hand Baxendale points out that J.S. Bachs music during the 1730 and 40s, when
his connections with the Dresden court were becoming stronger, began to show the influence of the galant style (2001). If the work had been written during this period, "there would
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