the berlin violinist, ferdinand david, was concertmaster at the gewandhaus, while felix mendelssohn was director; their association dated back to their infancy, as they were born within a year of each other in the same house. a champion of bach's music and, with robert schumann, one of the main musicians leading the bach revival in germany, mendelssohn would often include bach's lesser known works in the programmes of the evening chamber music concerts at the gewandhaus: in 1838 david and mendelssohn performed the third sonata in e major bwv 1016; and in 1840 david played the chaconne in d minor and praeludium in e major from bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin with piano accompaniments provided by mendelssohn; he felt that a piano accompaniment was needed to make the solo violin works more accessible to a nineteenth century audience. the chaconne was programmed in several subsequent gewandhaus seasons; david was unwilling to perform it unaccompanied in public but the young joseph joachim did so while briefly sharing the first desk with david. in leipzig the firm of friedrich kistner published david's performing version of the solo sonatas and partitas in 1843. later mendelssohn had the arrangement of the chaconne published in england in 1847; piano accompaniments were subsequently provided for all bach's solo violin works by schumann. in 1864 david prepared an edition of bwv 1014–1016 for peters which was reissued ten years later by breitkopf & härtel.