Johann Sebastian Bach's six three-part sonatas, BWV 525–530, well-known as organ trio sonatas, are among the most masterful works Bach wrote for a single instrument. Even the early Bach biographer Johann Nikolaus Forkel praised them: "One cannot say enough of their beauty." Forkel calls them "Sonatas or Trios for Two Keyboards with Obligatory Pedal." Whether they were composed as a single work remains uncertain. The sonatas were composed in Leipzig shortly after 1727.
The third of these sonatas is presented here in its original key of D minor. Following the customs of Bach's time, this ingenious work has been given a new arrangement for two violins and basso continuo. This edition adheres to the original text of the organ trio sonata in notation and ornamentation.
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