Trio Sonata for Two Flutes (W. F. Bach) explained

The Trio Sonata for Two Flutes in A minor, F. 49, BR B15, is one of three trio sonatas for paired flutes and basso continuo composed c. 1740 by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach while organist at the Dresden Sophienkirche.^[1] The manuscript is in the Central State Archives Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv.^[1]

There are two movements:

1. Allegro
2. Larghetto (fragment)

An attempt to complete the second movement and add a third was published in the 1990s.^[2]

It has been recorded by Jean-Pierre Rampal, with Isaac Stern on violin, taking the second flute part.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: . Sadie, Stanley . Stanley Sadie . . 2001 . 2 . 383, 386 . 978-0-19-517067-2.
2. Book: The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Eastman Studies in Music) . Schulenberg, David . . 2010 . 978-1-58-046359-1 . 308.
3. CBS Masterworks MK 37813, and Sony SMK 64509: with John Steele Ritter, harpsichord, and Leslie Parnas, cello.