BWV 992
Werk BWV 992
Work BWV 992
Keyboard Work
Complete
About this Work
The Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother (1] The story that Bach performed it at age nineteen when his brother Johann Jacob left to become an oboist in the army of Charles XII in Sweden is questionable.[2] But the chosen tonality of B-flat major seems to be a deliberate reference to the family's name ("B" in German is B-flat in English). [original research?]