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Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, V. Chaconne, BWV 1004 - the dogs love it!

This video proves that dogs really like Bach’s sublime music, especially his Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor! Do you have a dog? If so, please check if it likes Bach and let us know in the comments section! Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004, by Bach, was written between 1717 and 1720. It is a part of his compositional cycle called ‘Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin’. The complete work consists of five parts: I. Allemande II. Corrente III. Sarabanda IV. Giga V. Ciaccona The movements are dance types of the time, and they are frequently listed by their French names: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, and Chaconne. In this performance, by the violinist Ray Chen, we present movement V. Ciaccona (also called by the alternative name of Chaconne), which is the most popular part of the overall composition. Professor Helga Thoene suggests that this partita, and especially its last movement, was a ‘tombeau’ written in memory of Bach’s first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (who died in 1720), though this theory is controversial. Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne “the greatest structure for solo violin that exists”. Violinist Joshua Bell has said the Chaconne is “not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but one of the greatest achievements of any man in history. It’s a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect”. Johannes Brahms in a letter to Clara Schumann described the piece, “On one stave, for a small instrument, the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind”. In 2005 Joseph C. Mastroianni published ‘Chaconne — The Novel’. Milo, abandoned by the father who introduced him to Chaconne, studied in Spain for four years to master the piece. In 2008 Arnold Steinhardt, the violin soloist and first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, published ‘Violin Dreams’, a memoir about his life as a violinist and about his ultimate challenge: playing Bach’s Chaconne. In 2017 Márta Ábrahám and Barnabás Dukay published a book about Bach’s Chaconne entitled: ‘Excerpts from Eternity — The Purification of Time and Character, the Fulfilment of Love and Cooperation with the Celestial Will in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaccona for Violin’. To accompany Bach’s Violin Partita, we have selected paintings by the artist Briton Rivière. Briton Rivière RA (1840 – 1920) was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings. His first pictures appeared at the British Institution, and in 1857 he exhibited three works at the Royal Academy, but it was not until 1863 that he became a regular contributor to the Academy exhibitions. In that year he was represented by ‘The eve of the Spanish Armada’, and in 1864 by a Romeo and Juliet’. However, subjects of this kind did not attract him long, for in 1865 he began, with ‘Sleeping Deerhound’, a series of paintings of animal subjects which occupied much of the rest of his life. In a lengthy interview in ‘Chums Boys Annual’, entitled “How I paint animals”, Rivière explained some of the practicalities of painting both tame and wild animals: “I have always been a great lover of dogs but I have worked at them so much that I’ve grown tired of having them about me. However, you can never paint a dog unless you are fond of it. I never work from a dog without the assistance of a man who is well acquainted with animals … Collies, I think, are the most restless dogs … greyhounds are also very restless, and so are fox terriers … The only way to paint wild animals is to gradually accumulate a large number of studies and a great knowledge of the animal itself, before you can paint its picture … I paint from dead animals as well as from live ones. I have had the body of a fine lioness in my studio … I have done a great deal of work in the dissecting rooms at the Zoological Gardens from time to time”. The artist and his wife had seven children; five sons and two daughters. Millicent Alice, one of his daughters, is seen in the paintings which are included in this video.