Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)

Authorship Note
It is generally accepted that this Vivaldi arrangement is the work of J. S. Bach; however, it was previously attributed to both Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach


Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 5 movements
Composition Year 1713–14
Genre Categories Concertos; For organ; Scores featuring the organ; For 1 player; For 6 recorders (arr); Scores featuring the recorder (arr); For 6 players (arr); For 2 pianos (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For 2 players (arr); For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano 4 hands (arr); For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); For violin, piano (arr); Scores featuring the violin (arr)

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Performances

Recordings

 Complete Recording (EU)
#523964 - 23.09MB - 12:45 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/67/V - 957×⇩ - MP3 - Vangi

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Vangi (2018/5/17)

Performer Pages Marie-Claire Alain (organ)
Publisher Info. Erato, 1963. 50146.
Copyright
Public Domain - Non-PD US [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Disque microsillon - Orgue Frobenius de Middelfart (Danemark)
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Sheet Music

Scores

 Complete Score
#307763 - 12.70MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 5336×⇩ - Irishmaestro

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Irishmaestro (2013/12/21)

Arranger Composer
Publisher. Info. Holograph manuscript, n.d.(ca.1714-17)
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (D-B): Mus.ms. Bach P 330
Source attributes the transcription to W. F. Bach.
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 Complete Score
#753846 - 13.71MB, 21 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 114×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2021/12/26)

Arranger Composer
Editor Friedrich Conrad Griepenkerl (1782-1849)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Edition Peters, n.d. Plate 8722.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Preface dated 1844 - this is a later re-issue however. Attributed to W.F. Bach.
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 Complete Score
#44117 - 0.54MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 20177×⇩ - Notnd

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Notnd (2009/10/29)

Arranger Composer
Editor Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
Publisher. Info. École classique de l’orgue by Alexandre Guilmant, Vol.8
Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1911. Plate A.G. 112.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
At the time of publication (1911), the original by Vivaldi had not yet been rediscovered; so, musicologists had erroneously attributed the concerto to W. F. Bach because of the little inscription “Di W. F. Bach. Manu mei Patris descripsit.” on the manuscript.
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 Complete Score (EU)
#874477 - 0.95MB, 13 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - C*/N*/V* - 301×⇩ - Sallen112

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Sallen112 (2023/9/11)

Arranger Composer
Editor Karl Heller (b. 1935)
Publisher. Info. Neue Bach-Ausgabe, Serie IV, Band 8 (pp.1-15)
Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1979. Plate BA 5051.
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Public Domain - See notes on copyright status for urtext editions [tag/del]
Misc. Notes 600 dpi. Page size is 12.688 x 10.00 inches.
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 Complete Score
#475414 - 0.51MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 9279×⇩ - editor

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editor (2017/6/11)

Arranger Composer
Editor Pierre Gouin - Contact
Publisher. Info. Montréal: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2017
Copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Urtext edition after a facsimile of the original manuscript.
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Selections

 I. (Allegro)
#366966 - 0.25MB, 6 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 6905×⇩ - editor

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 II. Largo e spiccato
#366967 - 0.08MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 9412×⇩ - editor

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 III. (Allegro)
#366968 - 0.15MB, 6 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 3997×⇩ - editor

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Arranger Composer
Editor Pierre Gouin - Contact
Publisher. Info. Montréal: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2015
Copyright
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Urtext edition after a facsimile of the original manuscript.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Complete

For 6 Recorders (Wiebes)

 Complete Score
#539926 - 17.66MB, 20 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 752×⇩ - Zandeavande

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Zandeavande (2018/9/3)

 Complete Parts (SinS AT BG)
#539927 - 18.18MB, 23 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 290×⇩ - Zandeavande

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Zandeavande (2018/9/3)

Arranger Jaap Wiebes
Publisher. Info. Jaap Wiebes
Copyright
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For 2 Pianos (Stradal)

 Complete Score
#96582 - 2.42MB, 42 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/22/V - 3198×⇩ - Aggelos

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Aggelos (2011/3/19)

Arranger August Stradal (1860-1930)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1926. Plate 29452.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes Whether the arranger is W.F. Bach or J.S. Bach, this is a transcription for BWV 596.
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For Piano 4 hands (Plato)

 Complete Score
#102547 - 1.23MB, 19 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1303×⇩ - Aggelos

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Aggelos (2011/5/20)

Arranger Carl Plato (fl.1858-1884)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.[1858]. Plate 4108.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Attributed to W.F. Bach on the score. There are at least two works listed in HMB this could be - the other is Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1872), p.70 - but the plate number fits 1858 much better, and no mode is specified on the score (though it is clearly in some form of D minor, not D major). (However, 1858 has eingerichtet, while 1872 has arr. ; this score has eingerichtet. If HMB follows the description on the score, that settles in favor of 1858 also.)
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For Piano (Golde)

 Complete Score
#648244 - 1.31MB, 15 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 107×⇩ - Afp0815

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Afp0815 (2020/9/21)

Arranger Adolf Golde (1830-1880)
Publisher. Info. Berlin: T. Trautwein, n.d.[1865]. Plate 2098.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del]
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For Piano (Stradal)

 Complete Score
#96579 - 1.70MB, 28 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 5977×⇩ - Aggelos

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Aggelos (2011/3/19)

Arranger August Stradal (1860-1930)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1897. Plate V.A. 2241.
Copyright
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 Complete Score
#637729 - 20.88MB, 29 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 82×⇩ - JacopoTore

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JacopoTore (2020/7/22)

Arranger August Stradal (1860-1930)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1897. Plate E. B. 2241.
Copyright
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For Piano (Zadora)

 Complete Score
#652710 - 1.62MB, 16 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 72×⇩ - Afp0815

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Afp0815 (2020/10/17)

Arranger Michael Zadora (1882-1946)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: N. Simrock, No.818, 1911. Plate 12696.
Copyright
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For Piano (Murdoch)

 Complete Score
#510620 - 1.22MB, 17 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/23/V - 2586×⇩ - Diets

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Diets (2018/1/26)

 Complete Score
#594068 - 1.91MB, 23 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/23/V - 688×⇩ - Afp0815

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Afp0815 (2019/10/19)

Arranger William Murdoch (1888-1942)
Publisher. Info. London: Augener, 1927. Plate 16746.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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For Piano (Nemerovsky)

 2. Largo
#391082 - 0.89MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 688×⇩ - Notenquetser

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Notenquetser (2015/8/28)

Arranger Aleksandr Nemerovsky (1859 -1915)
Publisher. Info. Russia: Unidentified Publisher, n.d.
Copyright
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Largo e spiccato (No.2)

For Violin and Piano (Hartmann)

 Complete Score
#438851 - 0.26MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/C - 120×⇩ - Sallen112

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 Violin Part
#438852 - 0.20MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/C - 98×⇩ - Sallen112

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Arranger Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956)
Publisher. Info. Transcriptions for Violin and Piano (No.13)
New York: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1916. Plate Hartmann-13.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Score engraved with Wilhelm Friedmann Bach's name.
This item, which is in the public domain in its country of origin, is likewise in the public domain in countries which apply the rule of the shorter term. All EU countries apply the rule of the shorter term in general.
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Fuga (No.3)

For 6 Recorders (Wiebes)

 Complete Score
#475307 - 3.49MB, 5 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 364×⇩ - Zandeavande

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Zandeavande (2017/6/10)

Arranger Jaap Wiebes
Publisher. Info. Jaap Wiebes
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Transposed from D minor to A minor
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General Information

Work Title Organ Concerto in D minor
Alternative. Title
Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. BWV 596 ; BC J 85 ; BR‑WFB YA 5
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Key D minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 5 movements:
  1. [Allegro]*
  2. Grave
  3. Fuga
  4. Largo e spiccato
  5. [Allegro]*

(*Without tempo indication; these are drawn from the orchestra score; Movement 2 in original: Adagio e spiccato.)

Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1713–14
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation organ
Primary Sources Bach Digital (source list)
External Links J.S. Bach.org
Bach.de (German)
Extra Information Arrangement of the Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, RV 565, by Antonio Vivaldi. Previously attributed to W. F. Bach. However, the handwriting is undoubtedly JSB's, who seems to have been the copyist and most probably the arranger. See Alfred Einstein's introduction to the Eulenburg edition of the Vivaldi Concerto Grosso RV 565 for a discussion.

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