Saturday 27 July 2013

JCF Bach - The Keyboard Concertos

      Keyboard concertos are always a favourite genre loved by many Classical period musicians, neither do JCF. He had composed at least 12 keyboard concertos and they are standard parameters to judge the style of the composer. Listings as below:
  • BR C29 \ Keyboard Concerto in E-flat major LSL(36p),SA(na)*falsely attributed to JC
  • BR C30a \ Keyboard Concerto in A major (Orchestral version) LSL(47p),LC(46p),AL(49p),SA(na)
  • BR C30b \ (Solo piano version) UGRL(15p),BL(12p)*falsely attributed to JC and CPE
  • BR C31 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 1" in G major BL(//92p)
  • BR C32 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 2" in F major BL(//92p)
  • BR C33 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 3" in D major BL(//92p)
  • BR C34 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 4" in E-flat major BL(//92p)
  • BR C35 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 5" in B-flat major BL(//92p)
  • BR C36 \ Keyboard Concerto "London No. 6" in C major BL(//92p)
  • BR C37 \ Keyboard Concerto in E major (Wf II:1) BSB(16p)
  • BR C40 \ Keyboard Concerto in F major (Wf II:4) WK/BSB(34p)
  • BR C41 \ Keyboard Concerto in D major (Wf II:2) WK/BSB(33p)
  • BR C43 \ Concerto Grosso in E-flat major (Wf II:5) (1792) WK/CV/BSB(42p)
Abbrev.
LSL-Leipzig State Library
SA-Singsakademie Berlin
LC-Library of Congress
BL-British Library
BSB-Berlin State Library
WK-Wolfgang Kiess (publisher)pocket score at 29.07 euros
CV-Carus Verlag full score at 31 euros
In my opinion, the London concertos and Concerto in E major are all survived in solo piano version due to the less page count. Therefore, reconstruction of the orchestral parts is needed to recover the full music, same goes to concertos by Kozeluch.

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