At 8:37 PM +0200 9/8/07, Daniel Wolf wrote:
I have always wondered about the case of the F trumpet in the second Brandenburg -- could this have been written for a situation in which the strings and ww. played at a Kammerton and the trumpeter used a high pitched but nominally Eb or even D trumpet?
An excellent question, but the answer would depend on what pitch was used at Cöthen for chamber music (not necessarily for the organ in the chapel).
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