Along with his major cycles such as the English and French suites, the Goldberg Variations or the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach also left a wealth of single pieces with a great diversity of titles, they stem in large part from his early youth and student period around the years 1700-1710. The title of the present work ╩ translated as ''Capriccio on the departure of his most beloved brother'' ╩ reveals that this is programmatic, onomatopoeic music of the kind that was very popular in the 17th and 1