Mimi Ezust responds to Rudolph Tang [who] wrote: [in essence] >>Does the Preludio of J.S.Bach (whose BWV I am not able to recall) have an >>orchestral or organ version or was it converted from the composer's other >>work? > >The Preludio that you have asked about is the first movement of BWV 1006, >the Partita for unaccompanied violin. There is reference to an arrangement >by Bach for a keyboard instrument called 1006a, and furthermore, there is >use of the same movement in the Cantata BWV 29 Sinfonia (first movement) >scored for chamber orchestra and organ. The cantata is called Wir danken >dir Gott, wir danken dir. This information can be found in the Schmieder Catalog. More remotely, the preludio is disassembled and quoted extensively [and even brought into uncomfortably close relationship with the "Dies Irae"] in a solo violin sonata by Eugene Ysae...his op. 27/3. A less deft deconstruction of the 1960s may be found in Lukas Foss's "Phorion." ["Baroque Variations"]. John Wiser [log in to unmask] http://wov.pioneeris.net