Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, BWV 992

{{Short description|Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach}} {{Expand language|topic=|langcode=it|date=January 2025}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother'', BWV 992}} The '''''Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother''''' (Italian: ''Capriccio sopra la lontananza del suo fratello dilettissimo''), BWV 992, is an early work by Johann Sebastian Bach, possibly modeled on the Biblical Sonatas of Johann Kuhnau.<ref>David Schulenberg, The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 86.</ref> The story that Bach performed it at age nineteen when his brother Johann Jacob left to become an oboist in the army of Charles XII of Sweden is questionable.<ref>The New Bach Reader: a Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, 2nd ed., edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, revised and enlarged by Christoph Wolff (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), p. 42.</ref> But the chosen tonality of B-flat major seems to be a deliberate reference to the family's name ("B" in German is B-flat in English). {{original research inline|date=June 2024}}

==Structure== {{Listen | filename = Johann Sebastian Bach - Capriccio Departure of Brother.ogg | title = Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother | description = Performed by Silvia Kind}} # Arioso: Adagio – 'Friends Gather & Try to Dissuade Him from departing' # (Andante) – 'They Picture the Dangers Which May Befall Him' # Adagiosissimo (or Adagissimo) – 'The Friends' Lament' # (Andante con moto) – 'Since He Cannot Be Dissuaded, They Say Farewell' # Allegro poco – 'Aria of the Postilion' (''Aria di postiglione'') # 'Fugue in Imitation of the Postilion's Horn' (''Fuga all'imitazione della cornetta di postiglione'')

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