French Suite No. 1 in D Minor: Allemande
Johann Friedrich Braunstein, The Hermitage (1721-25), Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
Johann Friedrich Braunstein, The Hermitage (1721-25), Peterhof (Petrodvorets)
The French Suite in D Minor was composed in 1987. This six-movement work clearly shows my affection for the music of Bach and Handel, although no identical dance sequence is found in either of the German masters' keyboard compositions.
The highly contrapuntal allemande (a dance type of German origin) is most unusual in its modulation to the relative major at the end of its first half--a procedure repeated in the sarabande and bourrée.