Being featured in many places is exactly what makes a piece of music well known. In this case, the 2nd partita is part of the sonatas and partitas for solo violin set. For comparison, individual movements of a concerto are not given their own page for being awesome because it's part of a set. You could say "among the more well known pieces" or something.Īs for the ciaconna, I understand that it is a monumental work, I can't see it deserving its own page if this page exists. Rdnzl 05:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC) Reply īeing featured doesn't make it "best known". If the 2nd Partita doesn't deserve its own page, perhaps the Chaconne might since it is likely to be searched on and is the subject of much literature. 2 is notable because of the Chaconne movement, however, which is famous in its own right. I would agree that it is the most well known of these works, probably by a large factor. The Gavotte en Rondeau was featured on the TV series Cosmos by Carl Sagan. 3 was also transcribed for lute and the Prelude as the Sinfonia to Cantata No. I don't understand why that set deserves its own article while the others do not (aside from the awesome ciaconna, which can have descriptions on this article). Is the rest of the quote really necessary (unless the following suggestion is made). "The third partita is probably the best known of the six suites." Also, I now do agree that there should be separate articles for each sonata and partita (perhaps discussing the music, while the main page focuses on history and significance), though I think this page should be beefed up much more first. I like your ideas, Karmish, be bold and add them to the page. It might be worth adding that Yehudi Menuhin was the first to record the entire work. Also, I believe his 1903 recording of Tempo Di Borea (which I believe is one of only five surviving record by him), might be the very oldest of any piece in this repretoire. If there are some decent sources pretaining to Joachim's involvement with this work, I think it would be worth adding. Some websites seem to support that, but others claim that the repretoire was quite popular from the beginning on and was never at threat of being lost (using the fact that Bach's own autograph of the pieces survive to this day). From reading Leopold Auer's book it seemed to suggest that Joachim was instrumental in highlighting this work. One thing I had in mind, but requires further research, is the involvement of Joseph Joachim in this work. That being said I am all for having an article that address features of the group in general. Whether we merge the 2nd partita article to this one would depend mainly on if there is a potential to expand on the other works as well in sperate articles. I do think that the page on the 2nd partita should be merged with this one, though. There is lots of interesting information about the sonatas and partitas, but I'm not schooled enough in music to contribute as much as I'd like. This is one of my favorite pieces of music, so I'd really like to see this page develop some more. I've been doing some heavy editing to this article, and I've added a lot of links to it from other articles.
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