> Ibo wrote ... Dürr ... transposition ..

Excellent and very useful account, Ibo, thanks!!

> And as I have pointed out in earlier discussions, Bach seems not to have
cared about "key character". Most notable is the case of the French
Ouverture (BWV 831 in b / BWV 831 a in c), which was published in
transposition to b for "mere" architectural reasons ...

I fully agree that the reasons were "architectural" and not at all "key
character". Let me also add (already earlier discussed) two possible further
reasons for the transposition:
 
TEMPERAMENT: In most German Good Temperaments (such as Werckmeister III and
Neidhardt Big City and including modern hypotheses such as Kellner and
Barnes) IMHO b minor produces less dissonances than c minor.
 
FINGERING: Also IMHO, when using baroque fingerings, the b minor version is
more "comfortable" in hand and finger movements than the c minor version.

Best

CDV

http://play.braybaroque.ie/


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