Music for Trumpet
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Catalogue
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Trumpet part
Transposed for Bb Piccolo and C Piccolo
Including measure numbers and rehearsal letters.
Composed by J.S. Bach
Transcribed by by Daniel Leavitt
While the art of transposition is not to be neglected, many players find the endurance and range difficulties in the Brandenburg No. 2 to be sufficient mountains to climb. These transposed parts are offered here as "picks and ropes" to ensure a safe climb to the summit of the peak.
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Set includes
Trumpet in Bb piccolo
Trumpet in C piccolo
Common measure numbers and letters.
Trumpeter Walter Holy (1921-2006) was a pioneer in period instrument revival. He recorded the Brandenburg No. 2 on the instrument pictured above 1964.
Gottfried Reiche was by reputation the finest trumpeter of the "Bach Era". It is believed that he performed the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 on a Jager (coiled) trumpet such as in the above portrait. Here is an account of his death from a newspaper of 1734:
"...Herr Gottfried Reiche, the Leucopetra-Misnicus and senior member of the municipal company of musicians in this place, suffered a stroke as he was travelling home and dropped dead in the Stadtpfeifer-Allee not far from his house where he was taken. The reason for this was on account of the enormous strain he suffered the night before while blowing [the trumpet] for the royal music, his condition having been greatly aggravated from the smoke given off by the torch-lights."
Johann S. Riemer's Manuscript Chronik preserved in the Stadtarchiv, Leipzig for Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1734
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