A Lover's Concerto 1995 film "Mr. Holland's Opus", in which the title character, attributing the Petzold minuet to Bach as was typical for the time in which that portion of the film was set, compares the two works in order to help his students gain an appreciation of Western classical music. The song is also featured, as a duet between a cello and a computer, in the 1984 film, "Electric Dreams". A Lover's Concerto "A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, and recorded in 1965 by The Toys. "A Lover's Concerto" sold more than
Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach one of the rare Bach concerto first movements in da capo "A–B–A" form. In 1845 Ignaz Moscheles performed the concerto in London. Scoring: harpsichord solo, violin I/II, viola, continuo (cello, violone) Length: c. 14 minutes While scholars agree that the concerto BWV 1055 is based on a lost original, different theories have been proposed for the instrument Bach used in that original. That it was an oboe d'amore was proposed in 1936 by Donald Francis Tovey, in 1957 by Ulrich Siegele, in 1975 by Wilfried Fischer, and in 2008 by Pieter Dirksen. Alternatively, Wilhelm Mohr argued in 1972 that the