Praeludium, BWV 1008
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. Known as the father of classical music, Bach created more than 1,100 works, including roughly 300 sacred cantatas. His output is unparalleled and includes about every musical genre outside of opera. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.
The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are some of the most frequently performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello. Bach most likely composed them during the period 1717–23, when he served as Kapellmeister in Köthen. The title given on the cover of the Anna Magdalena Bach manuscript was Suites à Violoncello Solo senza Basso (Suites for cello solo without bass).
Suite No. 2 in D minor includes the following movements:
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Minuet I / II
Gigue
The Prelude consists of two parts, the first of which has a strong recurring theme that is immediately introduced in the beginning. The second part is a scale-based cadenza movement that leads to the final, powerful chords. I made the transcription for classical guitar.
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约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫（德语：Johann Sebastian Bach，1685年3月31日－1750年7月28日），巴洛克时期的德国作曲家，杰出的管风琴、小提琴、大键琴演奏家，同作曲家亨德尔和泰勒曼齐名。巴赫被普遍认为是音乐史上最重要的作曲家之一，并被尊称为“西方‘现代音乐’之父”，也是西方文化史上最重要的人物之一。 巴赫的无伴奏大提琴组曲，编号BWV1007-1012，大约创作于1717年至1723年巴赫时任克滕宫廷乐长期间。也是《无伴奏小提琴奏鸣曲与组曲》的姐妹作。 不同于其他乐器的组曲和奏鸣曲，巴赫在这里构建了一种更加循序渐进和连贯统一的风格，每首组曲在结构上都按照严格的曲式谱成。而在音乐发展的过程中，每个乐章之间的内在联系更是交响曲的先声。前奏曲、阿列曼德和库朗特往往构成一个不规则但内容统一和连贯的快—慢—快结构；其后是慢速的萨拉班德，该乐章的音乐性格和内容都在组曲中明显的与其他乐章不同，而这种特点更是未来交响乐或奏鸣曲柔版（Adagio）乐章的预示；其后的小步舞曲（第一、二号）或其他三拍子快速舞曲（布雷舞曲：第三、四号。嘉禾舞曲：第五、六号）在曲式和音乐情感的发展上连接了前面慢速乐章与终曲快速乐章吉格（Gigue）。 本曲是我根据BWV 1008的前奏曲改编。