page_title: Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060 / Reception
context_page_description: The concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060, is a concerto for two harpsichords and string orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is likely to have originated in the second half of the 1730s as an arrangement of an earlier concerto, also in C minor, for oboe and violin. That conjectural original version of the concerto, which may have been composed in Bach's Köthen years, is lost, but has been reconstructed in several versions known as BWV 1060R.
context_section_description: In his early 19th-century Bach biography, Johann Nikolaus Forkel described the concerto as "very old", with which he probably meant he found its style antiquated. The concerto was published in 1848, edited by Friedrich Konrad Griepenkerl.
  In the 1874 preface to the Bach Gesellschaft edition of the concerto for two harpsichords, Wilhelm Rust had suggested that the original version of the concerto would have been for two violins. In 1886 Woldemar Voigt wrote that the original instrument for the part of the second harpsichord was more likely an oboe, and that the original of the concerto could almost certainly be identified with a lost concerto for oboe and violin mentioned in a 1764 Breitkopf catalogue.
caption: First page of music examples in Forkel's 1802 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach: the incipit of BWV 1060 is Fig. 11 on this page.[10]
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