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Flute Sonata BWV 1032

by J. S. Bach

Transposed from A major to G Major

For Descant Recorder and Keyboard

Completed and typeset by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2006

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This printing 23 June 2006.

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Flute Sonata BWV 1032

Johann Sebastian Bach has left us three flute sonatas with obbligato keyboard parts.There are also two or three flute sonatas with continuo accompaniments; the authenticityof one of these is contested.

In writing the Sonata in A, BWV1032, Bach respects the range of the recorder. Ownersof a Voice Flute, which is a recorder between the Tenor and Alto, whose lowest note is D,may play the sonata in its original form without changing a single note. Owners of theAlto recorder may transpose the sonata up three semitones into C major, which is acommon procedure; for the keyboard player, howev er, transposing at sight is not so easy.This arrangement makes the sonata available in G major, in which key it can be played onthe descant recorder. Also, if a tenor recorder with a sufficiently good sound is available,it could be used to give the Largo a contrasting sound.

The manuscript of the Sonata in A is titled Sonata a 1 Traversa è Cembalo obligato di J.S. Bach in Bach’s handwriting. It was discovered by von Winterfeld in an antique shop inBreslau and presented to the Preuß. Staatsbibliotek in Berlin; during the second worldwar it was moved to the monastery of Grüssau in central Silesia. At the end of the war, itwas removed by the Polish government to the Jagiellon University in Cracow, and in1977 was presented to the Deutsche Staatsbibliotek in Berlin. The manuscript is writtenon nineteen staves, and apart from this sonata it also contains a concerto for twokeyboards and string orchestra. The concerto occupies the top sixteen staves on eachpage, and, with typical economy, the Sonata fills up the lowest three staves. Eight of themanuscript pages are intact, but unfortunately, on six of the pages the lowest part hasbeen cut away, so that we lack some forty-five bars at the end of the first movement.

Completions of the first movement have been published by Gustav Schreck (Peters),Georges Barrère (Boston), Alfred Dürr (Bärenreiter), William Bennett (Chester), and BartKuijken (Breitkopf u. Härtel). The copyright status of these completions being unclear,this edition provides a new completion, bars 63 to 87, by Peter Billam. Also, since themanuscript leaves the right hand of the keyboard part blank in bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 25,26, 27, and in the last beat of bar 37, these bars have also been completed by PeterBillam.

Peter J Billamwww.pjb.com.au/mus

J. S. Bach Flute Sonata, BWV 1032 Transposed for Alto Recorder

Arrangement and Completion (bars 63−87) (c) 1999 Peter J Billam

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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from1973 to 1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as MusicalDirector of the Theatre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer andcomputer programmer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at theConservatorium, conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice andharpsichord. He founded www.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line,with on-line delivery, taking scores from Composer to Performer in one immediate step.Www.pjb.com.au offers new approaches to funding composers and to music publishing. Ina special offer to promote the opera November at the Carousel, all the pieces are currentlybeing offered free ! These pieces are written to be read, made to be played !

Compositions at www.pjb.com.au include: Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute and guitar, 1980;Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987; To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988; A Suite ofCurves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990; Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melodyinstruments, 1991; Tr ombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994; Three Songs, onpoems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of thesesongs are available), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994; Four Dances, various ensembles including recorderquartet, string quartet, 1995; The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge, SATB choir, 1995; Tr esCasidas del Diván del Tamarit, on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997; Three Suites,for the solo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000; Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman andJünger, choir (only the second and third of these songs are available), 2000; Three Duets for flutes, 2001; ForFour Hands for piano four hands, 2002; Three Preludes for piano, 2003. Second Solo Suite for flute, violin,viola or cello, 2003. Guitar Duet for two guitars, 2006.

Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach: Trio BWV 655, piano and flute; Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,piano; Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders; Flute Sonata BWV 1031 transposed into G major foralto recorder and keyboard; Flute Sonata BWV 1032 completed by Peter Billam for flute and keyboard, alsotransposed into C major for alto recorder and into G major for descant; Ricercare a 3, from theMusikalisches Opfer for keyboard; Ricercare a 6, for sSATBG recorders, or strings, or two keyboards;Fuga Canonica in Epidiapente for keyboard and melody instrument; Contrapunctus 14, from the Art ofFugue as completed by D. F. Tovey, for keyboard, or for SATB recorders, or for strings; Passacaglia andFugue in c for piano four hands; Chorales with Descant for melody instrument and piano; Cello Suite I forflute or alto recorder, Forty Chorales for piano. By Johannes Brahms: Fugue in Ab minor for organ, forSATB recorders and gamba, in A minor; Choralvorspiele for organ with previous settings by Isaac, Bach,Praetorius, recorders. By Franz Schubert: Four Songs, voice and guitar; Schubert Dances, recorders andguitar, Schubert Dances, piano 4 hands. By other composers: G. F. Händel, Concerto Grosso in A minor op6 no 4, harpsichord and recorders; Claudio Monteverdi, Ecco Mormorar l’Onde, SSATB recorders; TwelveItalian Songs, voice and guitar; John Wilbye, Draw on sweet Night, SSATTB recorders, and for flute choir;Telemann, Twelve Flute Fantasias, recorder; John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute or recorderand guitar; Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar; Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano.

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