Goldsmith's music, intimate par excellence, the trio sonata, for two solo instruments and basso continuo, modeled by Corelli, inspired the greatest figures of the 18th century . These gallant conversations, between France and Germany, bring together the works of: François Couperin (1668-1733), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681- 1767).
The first published "La Françoise", taken from Les Nations , in 1726, but he liked to remind in his confession to the public that the "sonade" which opens the work was also the first that he composed, "and which was composed in France.
Jean-Marie Leclair, dancer and virtuoso violinist, famous for his concertos and sonatas for solo violin, also published several collections of trio sonatas, including his First recreation of music (op. 6), in 1736. "easy", this series of graceful dances intended for an amateur setting is a true homage to the French musical tradition.
Johann Sebastian Bach leaves few trio sonatas, but not the least. The Sonata sopr'il soggetto Reale a traversa, violino e continuo is dedicated to the King of Prussia Frederick II – who suggested the theme – and is one of the last works that the cantor composed, in 1747, in the modern gallant taste of Potsdam .
The evolution of the genre is, however, already at work and the viol frees itself from the basso continuo part in the New Quartets that Georg Philipp Telemann composed in Paris in 1738, lively, colorful and inventive pages which build a bridge to the classical quartet.
