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Bach Orchestral Suite 4 program notes, recordings and sheet music.

BWV 1070 is often listed as "Orchestral Suite No. 5" in some older recordings or catalogs, modern musicology almost certainly attributes this work not to Johann Sebastian Bach, but to his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784).

Program Notes: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (formerly J.S. Bach?) – Orchestral Suite in G minor, BWV 1070

Welcome, dear concert-goer, to a delightful and slightly mysterious journey into the Baroque. Tonight, we present a piece often encountered as "Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 5," BWV 1070, though its true authorship has been a fascinating puzzle for musicologists. While it carries the BWV number (designating it as a work once attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach), the consensus among scholars today points to his eldest and famously complex son, Wilhelm

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