ARRANGEMENTS & INTABULATIONS

Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – 1705)

He worked as a violinist and composer in Dresden and Weimar and as a professor of modern languages. His surviving music consists of seven works for violin and basso continuo and seven for solo violin, all of which were published during his lifetime. He composed some of the earliest known pieces of music for solo violin, and his work greatly influenced a later generation of German violinists. It is believed that his six solo violin suites were inspired by the famous violin sonatas and partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach, and so I found it very interesting to make my own intabulation of his first suite in A minor.

You can download the biography and sheet music of the preserved suites in the modern edition here.