Minuet (Stölzel) & Trio in G minor
BWV 929 performed by Dymitr Szostak
Maltezerhuis, Utrecht
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Two composers and one young talent
Bach added this trio to a partita by Stölzel as teaching material for his son
This project is called All of Bach, rather than Only Bach, so once in a while it includes music that is no longer attributed to Bach, or music by other composers that Bach used himself in one way or another. This could be Bach’s keyboard arrangements of music by Vivaldi, for example, or by Benedetto Marcello.
Also in the case of the Klavierbüchlein, which father Bach compiled for his son Wilhelm Friedemann, there were links to other composers. For instance, he included a suite by Telemann in the manuscript, as well as two short parts from a suite by Pier Giuseppe Sandoni, from Bologna. The latter only came to light quite recently, as Bach hardly ever wrote the name of a composer alongside a piece. The sole exception is the Partita di signore Steltzeln; i.e. a partita by his contemporary Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel. To the minuet from this partita, Bach added his own trio – and voilà: BWV 929.
The Klavierbüchlein was clearly intended as teaching material. With care and precision, father Bach developed the talent of Wilhelm Friedemann through the music in this manuscript. By also including pieces by other musicians in the notebook, he confronted his son with the wider musical world. Nowhere in the Klavierbüchlein was this interaction more direct than in the composite minuet by Stölzel and Bach. Here, the fifteen-year-old Dymitr Szostak plays Bach’s added trio as it was intended, and as Wilhelm Friedemann must have played it too: as the middle section of Stölzel’s minuet. A little musical conversation between two composers and one young talent.
Young talent
Once every two or three years, the Netherlands Bach Society organises a talent development project for gifted young musicians under the age of 18. The projects, which focus on the performance practice of Bach’s music, allows us to bring talented youngsters into contact with historical performance practice and give them deeper insight into Bach’s music. In this talent development project, we worked with keyboardists of the future. Seven very talented international youngsters between twelve and eighteen years old were selected from auditions to take two masterclasses about Bach, the harpsichord and baroque playing techniques and styles, given by Siebe Henstra. Each keyboardist rehearsed movements from the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, including the Nine Little Preludes, BWV 924-932, which Bach wrote to use in lessons with his son Wilhelm Friedemann. The rehearsed works were recorded for All of Bach in October 2024, at the Maltezerhuis in Utrecht.
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- Release date
- 7 May 2026
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- Recording date
- 16 October 2024
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- Location
- Maltezerhuis, Utrecht
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- Harpsichord
- Dymitr Szostak
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- Instrument
- Titus Crijnen, 1992 naar Johannes Ruckers, 1638
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- Director and camera
- Robin van Erven Dorens
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- Music recording
- Guido Tichelman, Pim van der Lee
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- Music recording, edit and mix
- Guido Tichelman
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- Camera
- Martijn van Beenen
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- Lights
- Ernst-Jan Thieme
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- Data handling
- Marloes Biermans
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- Assistant music recording
- Brechtje van Riel
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- Producer
- Lisanne Marlou de Kok
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