CPE Bach: Adagio in D Minor

[Martin Jonas]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Adagio per il organo, H352

This Adagio in D Minor was written for organ, but it translates nicely to a trio of mandolin, tenor guitar and mandocello -- the piece consist of three monophonic voices, each intended to be played on a different organ stop and written on a different staff. It can be played on plucked instruments straight from the organ score. I have dropped the middle voice down an octave, and have played it on tenor guitar, with the top voice on mandolin and the bass voice on mandocello.

I have used a score from IMSLP (see attached):

https://imslp.org/wiki/Adagio_in_D_m...ilipp_Emanuel)

CPE Bach was the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the most successful of his sons: in his lifetime, he was much more famous than his father. His style straddles late baroque and early classical.

1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



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