← Chamber music6Trio Sonata in C minor, Wq. 161/1, H. 579 ("Sanguineus and Melancholicus")
For 2 violins, continuo
Also known as Zwiegespräch zwischen einem Sanguineus und Melancholicus · Sanguineus et Melancholicus
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- With continuo
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 14 min
- Composed
- 1749
- Era
- Classical
Notes
Programmatic dialogue between a sanguine and a melancholic violin; Nuremberg print of 1751
About this work
- Composed
- 1749, Potsdam.
- Dedicated to
- Wilhelm von Schaumburg-Lippe
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