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Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin (c. 1696)
Performed by Kolya Lessing
Suite No. 1 in A Minor:
Allemande - 0:00
Courante - 2:43
Sarabande - 4:22
Gigue - 6:19
Suite No. 2 in A Major:
Allemande - 7:48
Courante - 10:44
Sarabande - 12:15
Gigue - 13:39
Suite No. 3 in B-Flat Major:
Allemande - 15:29
Courante - 18:10
Sarabande - 19:51
Gigue - 21:22
Suite No. 4 in C Major:
Allemande - 23:49
Courante - 26:13
Sarabande - 27:23
Gigue - 28:52
Suite No. 5 in D Minor:
Allemande - 31:35
Courante - 33:49
Sarabande - 35:16
Gigue - 36:42
Suite No. 6 in D Major:
Allemande - 38:56
Courante - 41:36
Sarabande - 42:48
Gigue - 44:28
Source of Audio (with performance information) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34iZsGgu...
published: 24 Apr 2020
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Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
painter - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
published: 02 Nov 2022
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Johann Paul von Westhoff - Violin Sonata No. 3 (Imitazione delle Campane)
Westhoff, Johann Paul von: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
COMPOSER: Westhoff, Johann Paul von (1656-1705)
WORK: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Imitazione delle Campane)
SOLOIST: Baiba Skride (violin)
RECORDING DATE: February 22/23, 2018
RECORDING LOC: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
SOURCE: DVD
published: 21 Nov 2018
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Johann Paul von Westhoff-Partita I for solo violin (1/2)
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
Partita I for solo violin: Allemande/Courante.
Gunar Letzbor-Violin.
published: 22 Oct 2010
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Solo Partita I in A Minor: I. Allemande
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Westhoff: Sei partite à violino senza basso accompagnato, 1696
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Released on: 2010-01-01
Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff
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published: 03 May 2018
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Westhoff - Suites for Solo Violin (Kolja Lessing)
The painting is "Moonlit River Landscape with Figures and a Town Beyond", oil on panel by Aert van der Neer, 17th century
Suite in A major for solo violin (1683)
Six Suites for Solo VIolin
Suite No.1 in A minor 10:18
Suite No.2 in A major 18:06
Suite No.3 in B flat major 25:46
Suite No.4 in C major 34:07
Suite No.5 in D minor 41:50
Suite No.6 in D major 49:13
The little-known Johann Paul von Westhoff, Dresden-born, was a violinist, composer and something of a prodigious linguist as well. From his teenage years he was a language teacher to the princes of Saxony and later became Professor of Foreign languages at Wittenberg, though when he died he was a secretary to the Court of Weimar. These pioneering sonatas, the first such complete cycle of solo violin works before Bach, are constant...
published: 03 May 2012
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Westhoff Suite in D Major for Solo Violin Yoojin Jang
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Yoojin Jang, violin
Renana Gutman, piano
Sunday, April 26th, 2015
Jordan Hall, Boston
Filmed by SiMon Yue (SoundProfessional, Boston)
Audio credit: NEC/Yoo Jin Jang
Questions please contact Simon: [email protected]
published: 05 Jun 2015
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VON WESTHOFF // Suites for Solo Violin by Plamena Nikitassova
Release date → March 2020
Stream//Download//Buy → https://lnk.to/VonWesthoff_NikitassovaYV
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection published in Dresden in 1696, as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure galant of Paris in 1683, following his visit to Versailles.
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published: 11 Feb 2020
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J.P. von Westhoff - Suite for solo violin in A (1683)
#Westhoff#violin#solo
2 PIÈCES PARUES DANS 'LE MERCURE GALANT' , a.k.a. SONATA VIOLINO SOLO COL BASSO CONTINUO ET SUITE POUR LE VIOLON SANS BASSE CONTINUE
Suite for solo violin in A major, by Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705).
I. Prelude - 0:01
II. Allemande - 1:47
III. Courante - 3:35
IV. Sarabande - 5:12
V. Gigue - 7:42
VI. Autre gigue - 8:38
Kolja Lessing (violin)
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Picture: View of the Tiber in Rome (1685, oil on canvas), by Caspar van Wittel (1683-1736).
published: 19 Oct 2019
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Johann Paul von Westhoff - A minor Partita 1. Allemande
Peter Sheppard Skærved - Violin Andrea Amati 1572
Very little of this composer’s output survives. In addition to the works for violin alone, all that we have is seven sonatas for violin with continuo. The remaining works, for vioin alone, consist of six suites/partitas, published (or in preparation for publication) in Dresden in 1696, and a larger-scale suite, which appeared 13 years only, in Paris, as Suite pour le violon seul sans basse, in the ‘Mercure galant’. It is known that a collection of solo works had appeared earlier, Erstes Dutzend Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden und Giguen Violino Solo sonder Passo Continuo (Dresden, 1682): there’s some speculation that the 1696 collection was a reworked of that ‘First Dozen’.
Famously, the six partitas are presented on an experimental st...
published: 17 May 2022
45:36
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin (c. 1696)
Performed by Kolya Lessing
Suite No. 1 in A Minor:
Allemande - 0:00
Courante - 2:43
Sa...
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin (c. 1696)
Performed by Kolya Lessing
Suite No. 1 in A Minor:
Allemande - 0:00
Courante - 2:43
Sarabande - 4:22
Gigue - 6:19
Suite No. 2 in A Major:
Allemande - 7:48
Courante - 10:44
Sarabande - 12:15
Gigue - 13:39
Suite No. 3 in B-Flat Major:
Allemande - 15:29
Courante - 18:10
Sarabande - 19:51
Gigue - 21:22
Suite No. 4 in C Major:
Allemande - 23:49
Courante - 26:13
Sarabande - 27:23
Gigue - 28:52
Suite No. 5 in D Minor:
Allemande - 31:35
Courante - 33:49
Sarabande - 35:16
Gigue - 36:42
Suite No. 6 in D Major:
Allemande - 38:56
Courante - 41:36
Sarabande - 42:48
Gigue - 44:28
Source of Audio (with performance information) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34iZsGgufmg&t=10s
https://wn.com/Johann_Paul_Von_Westhoff_Six_Suites_For_Solo_Violin
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Six Suites for Solo Violin (c. 1696)
Performed by Kolya Lessing
Suite No. 1 in A Minor:
Allemande - 0:00
Courante - 2:43
Sarabande - 4:22
Gigue - 6:19
Suite No. 2 in A Major:
Allemande - 7:48
Courante - 10:44
Sarabande - 12:15
Gigue - 13:39
Suite No. 3 in B-Flat Major:
Allemande - 15:29
Courante - 18:10
Sarabande - 19:51
Gigue - 21:22
Suite No. 4 in C Major:
Allemande - 23:49
Courante - 26:13
Sarabande - 27:23
Gigue - 28:52
Suite No. 5 in D Minor:
Allemande - 31:35
Courante - 33:49
Sarabande - 35:16
Gigue - 36:42
Suite No. 6 in D Major:
Allemande - 38:56
Courante - 41:36
Sarabande - 42:48
Gigue - 44:28
Source of Audio (with performance information) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34iZsGgufmg&t=10s
- published: 24 Apr 2020
- views: 6931
56:59
Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
painter - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
painter - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
https://wn.com/Johann_Paul_Von_Westhoff_–_Suites_For_Solo_Violin
Johann Paul Von Westhoff – Suites For Solo Violin
painter - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
- published: 02 Nov 2022
- views: 608
2:56
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Violin Sonata No. 3 (Imitazione delle Campane)
Westhoff, Johann Paul von: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
COMPOSER: Westhoff, Johann Paul von (1656-1705)
WORK: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Imitazione d...
Westhoff, Johann Paul von: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
COMPOSER: Westhoff, Johann Paul von (1656-1705)
WORK: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Imitazione delle Campane)
SOLOIST: Baiba Skride (violin)
RECORDING DATE: February 22/23, 2018
RECORDING LOC: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
SOURCE: DVD
https://wn.com/Johann_Paul_Von_Westhoff_Violin_Sonata_No._3_(Imitazione_Delle_Campane)
Westhoff, Johann Paul von: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
COMPOSER: Westhoff, Johann Paul von (1656-1705)
WORK: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Imitazione delle Campane)
SOLOIST: Baiba Skride (violin)
RECORDING DATE: February 22/23, 2018
RECORDING LOC: Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
SOURCE: DVD
- published: 21 Nov 2018
- views: 11482
7:16
Johann Paul von Westhoff-Partita I for solo violin (1/2)
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
Partita I for solo violin: Allemande/Courante.
Gunar Letzbor-Violin.
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
Partita I for solo violin: Allemande/Courante.
Gunar Letzbor-Violin.
https://wn.com/Johann_Paul_Von_Westhoff_Partita_I_For_Solo_Violin_(1_2)
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705)
Partita I for solo violin: Allemande/Courante.
Gunar Letzbor-Violin.
- published: 22 Oct 2010
- views: 4351
4:50
Solo Partita I in A Minor: I. Allemande
Provided to YouTube by IDOL
Solo Partita I in A Minor: I. Allemande · Gunar Letzbor
Westhoff: Sei partite à violino senza basso accompagnato, 1696
℗ Arcana /...
Provided to YouTube by IDOL
Solo Partita I in A Minor: I. Allemande · Gunar Letzbor
Westhoff: Sei partite à violino senza basso accompagnato, 1696
℗ Arcana / 551 Media SRL
Released on: 2010-01-01
Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff
Auto-generated by YouTube.
https://wn.com/Solo_Partita_I_In_A_Minor_I._Allemande
Provided to YouTube by IDOL
Solo Partita I in A Minor: I. Allemande · Gunar Letzbor
Westhoff: Sei partite à violino senza basso accompagnato, 1696
℗ Arcana / 551 Media SRL
Released on: 2010-01-01
Composer: Johann Paul von Westhoff
Auto-generated by YouTube.
- published: 03 May 2018
- views: 553
55:57
Westhoff - Suites for Solo Violin (Kolja Lessing)
The painting is "Moonlit River Landscape with Figures and a Town Beyond", oil on panel by Aert van der Neer, 17th century
Suite in A major for solo violin (16...
The painting is "Moonlit River Landscape with Figures and a Town Beyond", oil on panel by Aert van der Neer, 17th century
Suite in A major for solo violin (1683)
Six Suites for Solo VIolin
Suite No.1 in A minor 10:18
Suite No.2 in A major 18:06
Suite No.3 in B flat major 25:46
Suite No.4 in C major 34:07
Suite No.5 in D minor 41:50
Suite No.6 in D major 49:13
The little-known Johann Paul von Westhoff, Dresden-born, was a violinist, composer and something of a prodigious linguist as well. From his teenage years he was a language teacher to the princes of Saxony and later became Professor of Foreign languages at Wittenberg, though when he died he was a secretary to the Court of Weimar. These pioneering sonatas, the first such complete cycle of solo violin works before Bach, are constant feasts of polyphony and sensitively laid out for the instrument. That they have been neglected for so long -- they were really only re-encountered (re-discovered sounds too melodramatic since they had been known, albeit many dictionaries ignored them) in the 1970s -- is not an index of their paucity of invention. It would be objectively true however to say that judged by the constant expressive demands of Bach, or the idiosyncratic inventiveness and technical novelty of Biber, or even Pisendel's command, these sonatas occupy a somewhat lower rung of invention.
They date from 1683 -- the date of publication of the six movement Suite -- to 1696, nine years before Westhoff's death. He was clearly a melodist of no little talent; there's no meandering or lack of concision. Since none of the movements breaches the three minute mark, compression of musical ideas and linear working out is the order of the day and the rewards are plentiful especially in this, the first recording of the complete sonatas on disc (though Elizabeth Wallfisch has recorded II, IV, V and VI for Hyperion). The influences on the 1683 Suite are prevailingly French with a Sarabande that demands good bowing and an accurate trill -- both in evidence here -- as well as the ability to sustain melodic impulse. In the First of the 1696 set we find a pleasing component of Westhoff's compositional armoury -- he was an energetic composer and wrote correspondingly energetic Courantes which thrive on motion and a sense of direction. In some of the sparer movements, the Sarabande of No.2 for example, Lessing applies some discreet ornamentation and it's invariably apposite. To me this movement is one of the highlights of the set - intriguingly various and delightful.
Similarly the Allemande that opens No. 5 (these are incidentally all four-movement works in classic dance form; Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) is serious but lyrical with some rhetorical pauses that are well judged by Lessing. The final Gigue has a hunting-like motif that shows some of the variety the composer imparts. The opening Allemande of the last Suite is full of great delicacy and clarity and the concluding Gigue is vibrant and vocalised and makes a fine conclusion to these far too little known works; those moments when Westhoff departs from strict form and embraces the rustic as well as the courtly are invariably delightful.
https://wn.com/Westhoff_Suites_For_Solo_Violin_(Kolja_Lessing)
The painting is "Moonlit River Landscape with Figures and a Town Beyond", oil on panel by Aert van der Neer, 17th century
Suite in A major for solo violin (1683)
Six Suites for Solo VIolin
Suite No.1 in A minor 10:18
Suite No.2 in A major 18:06
Suite No.3 in B flat major 25:46
Suite No.4 in C major 34:07
Suite No.5 in D minor 41:50
Suite No.6 in D major 49:13
The little-known Johann Paul von Westhoff, Dresden-born, was a violinist, composer and something of a prodigious linguist as well. From his teenage years he was a language teacher to the princes of Saxony and later became Professor of Foreign languages at Wittenberg, though when he died he was a secretary to the Court of Weimar. These pioneering sonatas, the first such complete cycle of solo violin works before Bach, are constant feasts of polyphony and sensitively laid out for the instrument. That they have been neglected for so long -- they were really only re-encountered (re-discovered sounds too melodramatic since they had been known, albeit many dictionaries ignored them) in the 1970s -- is not an index of their paucity of invention. It would be objectively true however to say that judged by the constant expressive demands of Bach, or the idiosyncratic inventiveness and technical novelty of Biber, or even Pisendel's command, these sonatas occupy a somewhat lower rung of invention.
They date from 1683 -- the date of publication of the six movement Suite -- to 1696, nine years before Westhoff's death. He was clearly a melodist of no little talent; there's no meandering or lack of concision. Since none of the movements breaches the three minute mark, compression of musical ideas and linear working out is the order of the day and the rewards are plentiful especially in this, the first recording of the complete sonatas on disc (though Elizabeth Wallfisch has recorded II, IV, V and VI for Hyperion). The influences on the 1683 Suite are prevailingly French with a Sarabande that demands good bowing and an accurate trill -- both in evidence here -- as well as the ability to sustain melodic impulse. In the First of the 1696 set we find a pleasing component of Westhoff's compositional armoury -- he was an energetic composer and wrote correspondingly energetic Courantes which thrive on motion and a sense of direction. In some of the sparer movements, the Sarabande of No.2 for example, Lessing applies some discreet ornamentation and it's invariably apposite. To me this movement is one of the highlights of the set - intriguingly various and delightful.
Similarly the Allemande that opens No. 5 (these are incidentally all four-movement works in classic dance form; Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue) is serious but lyrical with some rhetorical pauses that are well judged by Lessing. The final Gigue has a hunting-like motif that shows some of the variety the composer imparts. The opening Allemande of the last Suite is full of great delicacy and clarity and the concluding Gigue is vibrant and vocalised and makes a fine conclusion to these far too little known works; those moments when Westhoff departs from strict form and embraces the rustic as well as the courtly are invariably delightful.
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 72610
5:54
Westhoff Suite in D Major for Solo Violin Yoojin Jang
SiMon uploaded this for Yoojin Jang
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Yoojin Jang, violin
Renana Gutm...
SiMon uploaded this for Yoojin Jang
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Yoojin Jang, violin
Renana Gutman, piano
Sunday, April 26th, 2015
Jordan Hall, Boston
Filmed by SiMon Yue (SoundProfessional, Boston)
Audio credit: NEC/Yoo Jin Jang
Questions please contact Simon:
[email protected]
https://wn.com/Westhoff_Suite_In_D_Major_For_Solo_Violin_Yoojin_Jang
SiMon uploaded this for Yoojin Jang
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Yoojin Jang, violin
Renana Gutman, piano
Sunday, April 26th, 2015
Jordan Hall, Boston
Filmed by SiMon Yue (SoundProfessional, Boston)
Audio credit: NEC/Yoo Jin Jang
Questions please contact Simon:
[email protected]
- published: 05 Jun 2015
- views: 3049
3:29
VON WESTHOFF // Suites for Solo Violin by Plamena Nikitassova
Release date → March 2020
Stream//Download//Buy → https://lnk.to/VonWesthoff_NikitassovaYV
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant m...
Release date → March 2020
Stream//Download//Buy → https://lnk.to/VonWesthoff_NikitassovaYV
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection published in Dresden in 1696, as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure galant of Paris in 1683, following his visit to Versailles.
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Release date → March 2020
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Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705) was one of the most brilliant members of the significant school of violinists that flourished in seventeenth-century Dresden. This impressive virtuoso, who was even applauded by Louis XIV at Versailles, wrote the very first compositions for unaccompanied violin, which of course foreshadow the later masterpieces of Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme recorded here includes some suites from his collection published in Dresden in 1696, as well as the suite that was printed in the Mercure galant of Paris in 1683, following his visit to Versailles.
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- published: 11 Feb 2020
- views: 3671
10:12
J.P. von Westhoff - Suite for solo violin in A (1683)
#Westhoff#violin#solo
2 PIÈCES PARUES DANS 'LE MERCURE GALANT' , a.k.a. SONATA VIOLINO SOLO COL BASSO CONTINUO ET SUITE POUR LE VIOLON SANS BASSE CONTINUE
Suit...
#Westhoff#violin#solo
2 PIÈCES PARUES DANS 'LE MERCURE GALANT' , a.k.a. SONATA VIOLINO SOLO COL BASSO CONTINUO ET SUITE POUR LE VIOLON SANS BASSE CONTINUE
Suite for solo violin in A major, by Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705).
I. Prelude - 0:01
II. Allemande - 1:47
III. Courante - 3:35
IV. Sarabande - 5:12
V. Gigue - 7:42
VI. Autre gigue - 8:38
Kolja Lessing (violin)
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Picture: View of the Tiber in Rome (1685, oil on canvas), by Caspar van Wittel (1683-1736).
https://wn.com/J.P._Von_Westhoff_Suite_For_Solo_Violin_In_A_(1683)
#Westhoff#violin#solo
2 PIÈCES PARUES DANS 'LE MERCURE GALANT' , a.k.a. SONATA VIOLINO SOLO COL BASSO CONTINUO ET SUITE POUR LE VIOLON SANS BASSE CONTINUE
Suite for solo violin in A major, by Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656-1705).
I. Prelude - 0:01
II. Allemande - 1:47
III. Courante - 3:35
IV. Sarabande - 5:12
V. Gigue - 7:42
VI. Autre gigue - 8:38
Kolja Lessing (violin)
*** *** ***
Picture: View of the Tiber in Rome (1685, oil on canvas), by Caspar van Wittel (1683-1736).
- published: 19 Oct 2019
- views: 2451
3:01
Johann Paul von Westhoff - A minor Partita 1. Allemande
Peter Sheppard Skærved - Violin Andrea Amati 1572
Very little of this composer’s output survives. In addition to the works for violin alone, all that we have i...
Peter Sheppard Skærved - Violin Andrea Amati 1572
Very little of this composer’s output survives. In addition to the works for violin alone, all that we have is seven sonatas for violin with continuo. The remaining works, for vioin alone, consist of six suites/partitas, published (or in preparation for publication) in Dresden in 1696, and a larger-scale suite, which appeared 13 years only, in Paris, as Suite pour le violon seul sans basse, in the ‘Mercure galant’. It is known that a collection of solo works had appeared earlier, Erstes Dutzend Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden und Giguen Violino Solo sonder Passo Continuo (Dresden, 1682): there’s some speculation that the 1696 collection was a reworked of that ‘First Dozen’.
Famously, the six partitas are presented on an experimental stave, with 8 lines, not five. The stave is very violinistic – the central space is ‘A’, which is the centre of gravity, or at least, tuning, for the instrument. If you look at the second system of the example here (from the d minor partita/suite), you can see that the there are, intermittently, 9 lines. There’s nothing mysterious about this, as the top line is simply to provide the ‘C’ above the E-string. Anyone how works from baroque sources will know that the practice of individual (note specific) ledger lines for notes above the space is relatively uncommon – if a composer is going to spend time in a higher register without transferring to soprano clef, then they add another line, or lines on top of the stave. Bach was far from being alone in utilising multiple clefs within one movement (the Chaconne has three). Westhoff’s stave is organised with orientation spacing, not unlike a keyboard – the two wider spaces in the middle are on ‘D’ and ‘C”. This makes it very easy to locate yourself. Sharps and flats, when they are used in the key-signature, are spread across the compass of the stave, as was common practice in the 17th century. The left hand side of the stave is decorated with an ornate reverance to some of the clefs who are folded into this system – the lowest is a ‘C-clef’ wrapped around ‘middle-C’. The most fascinating result of this notation is a registral one: because the notation ensures that all of the notes are always in the architectural staffage of a stave, we don’t see high or low notes on the page, and further more, if we don’t see them, the mind’s-ear hears the pitches, the harmonies, to a degree (and I am aware that this is a personal point of view), liberated of the ‘per ardua ad astra’ of the low-to-high effortfulness of the move across the instrument -up and down.
https://wn.com/Johann_Paul_Von_Westhoff_A_Minor_Partita_1._Allemande
Peter Sheppard Skærved - Violin Andrea Amati 1572
Very little of this composer’s output survives. In addition to the works for violin alone, all that we have is seven sonatas for violin with continuo. The remaining works, for vioin alone, consist of six suites/partitas, published (or in preparation for publication) in Dresden in 1696, and a larger-scale suite, which appeared 13 years only, in Paris, as Suite pour le violon seul sans basse, in the ‘Mercure galant’. It is known that a collection of solo works had appeared earlier, Erstes Dutzend Allemanden, Couranten, Sarabanden und Giguen Violino Solo sonder Passo Continuo (Dresden, 1682): there’s some speculation that the 1696 collection was a reworked of that ‘First Dozen’.
Famously, the six partitas are presented on an experimental stave, with 8 lines, not five. The stave is very violinistic – the central space is ‘A’, which is the centre of gravity, or at least, tuning, for the instrument. If you look at the second system of the example here (from the d minor partita/suite), you can see that the there are, intermittently, 9 lines. There’s nothing mysterious about this, as the top line is simply to provide the ‘C’ above the E-string. Anyone how works from baroque sources will know that the practice of individual (note specific) ledger lines for notes above the space is relatively uncommon – if a composer is going to spend time in a higher register without transferring to soprano clef, then they add another line, or lines on top of the stave. Bach was far from being alone in utilising multiple clefs within one movement (the Chaconne has three). Westhoff’s stave is organised with orientation spacing, not unlike a keyboard – the two wider spaces in the middle are on ‘D’ and ‘C”. This makes it very easy to locate yourself. Sharps and flats, when they are used in the key-signature, are spread across the compass of the stave, as was common practice in the 17th century. The left hand side of the stave is decorated with an ornate reverance to some of the clefs who are folded into this system – the lowest is a ‘C-clef’ wrapped around ‘middle-C’. The most fascinating result of this notation is a registral one: because the notation ensures that all of the notes are always in the architectural staffage of a stave, we don’t see high or low notes on the page, and further more, if we don’t see them, the mind’s-ear hears the pitches, the harmonies, to a degree (and I am aware that this is a personal point of view), liberated of the ‘per ardua ad astra’ of the low-to-high effortfulness of the move across the instrument -up and down.
- published: 17 May 2022
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