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Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750 New Edition of the Complete Works Edited by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen and the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig Die Neue Bach-Ausgabe 1954-2007. Eine Dokumentation · Dokumentation herunterladen Bach for the 21st century The Bach-Archiv and Bärenreiter announce the revised Bach Edition |
The New Bach Edition was awarded the Special Year 2001 Price for Outstanding Music Editionsof the German Association of Music Publishers The New Bach Edition is an Urtext edition offering the world of scholarship a reliable musical text which is equally useful in performance. Prepared with the most exacting methods of source criticism, it has set new standards for modern scholarly-critical editions in the latter half of the 20th century. Work on the »New Bach Edition« led to the rediscovery of lost compositions and resolved many questions of authenticity in the Bach canon. Most of all, however, the close study of the sources has occasioned a large-scale revision of the chronology of Bach's life, thereby forming the basis for a new image of the composer in our time. In each series, the volumes not only contain those works by Bach which have survived intact but also those existing as fragments. In addition to a preface, each musical volume presents a selection |
of the relevant sources in facsimile. It is also accompanied by a separately published critical report. The »New Bach Edition« will appear in over 100 volumes divided into the following series: |
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