J. S. Bach / A. Vivaldi - "Sicilienne" from Piano Concerto in D minor, BWV 596

J. S. Bach / A. Vivaldi - “Sicilienne“ from Piano Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 Performed by Behzod Abduraimov. Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 Autograph manuscript of third movement and beginning of fourth movement of BWV 596 This transcription of Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor for two violins and obbligato violoncello, Op.3, (RV 565), had the heading on the autograph manuscript altered by Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach who added “di W. F. Bach manu mei Patris descript“ sixty or more years later. The result was that up until 1911 the transcription was misattributed to Wilhelm Friedemann. Despite the fact that Carl Friedrich Zelter, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin where many Bach manuscripts were held, had suggested Johann Sebastian as the author, the transcription was first published as a work by Wilhelm Friedemann in 1844 in the edition prepared for C.F. Peters by Friedrich Griepenkerl. The precise dating and true authorship was later established from the