bach manuscript and sheet music background

BACH MANUSCRIPT AND SHEET MUSIC BACKGROUND ARCHIVE

In Canada, new editions/re-engravings of public domain works (when not including new original material) should be in the public domain due to failing to meet the threshold of originality.

This edition was published by Bärenreiter in Germany over 25 years ago and is in the public domain in its country of origin. Any commentary or critical apparatus, if protected by copyright, should not be included in the scan(s) available here. This is an urtext/critical/scholarly/scientific edition (or a simple re-engraving). 2.2.3.1 For 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (Fine).2.2.2.4 For Celesta or Toy Piano (Isida).2.2.2.1 For 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (Fine).2.2.1.11 For Celesta or Toy Piano (Isida).2.2.1.2 For Cello or Viola and Piano (Stade).Musicologists have speculated that this work and the Suite in G minor, BWV 995 are both transcriptions of a composition for some other instrument such as the lautenwerk (lute-harpsichord) or the mandora, a type of bass lute. The work by Basilius Basler, an apothecary and copper engraver from Nuremberg, includes 366 hand-colored printings.Suites For cello Scores featuring the cello For 1 player For 3 cellos (arr) For 3 players (arr) Scores featuring the cello (arr) For 4 cellos (arr) For 4 players (arr) For 5 cellos (arr) For 5 players (arr) For 6 cellos (arr) For 6 players (arr) For 7 cellos (arr) For 7 players (arr) For cello, piano (arr) For 2 players (arr) Scores featuring the piano (arr) For viola, piano (arr) Scores featuring the viola (arr) For celesta (arr) For 1 player (arr) Scores featuring the celesta (arr) For toy piano (arr) Scores featuring the toy piano (arr) for melodica (arr) For flute (arr) Scores featuring the flute (arr) For viola (arr) For piano (arr) For 2 violins, viola, cello (arr) Scores featuring the violin (arr) For 3 violas (arr) For 2 recorders (arr) Scores featuring the recorder (arr) For horn (arr) Scores featuring the horn (arr) For this and other reasons, a number of Bach's works remain lost.Īlso auctioned off at Christie's on Wednesday was the 'Hortus Eystettensis,' a botanical encyclopedia dating from 1613. His oldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, sold some to pay debts. Johann Sebastian Bach bequeathed his original manuscripts to his widow and children.

BACH MANUSCRIPT AND SHEET MUSIC BACKGROUND ARCHIVE

A number of them can be viewed on the Bach digital website of the Bach Archive in Leipzig.

The vast majority - roughly 95 percent - exist in publically accessible libraries. Wilhelm Friedemann was himself a composerĪccording to Christie's, less than 10 complete autograph scores by Bach are currently privately owned, including two instrumental works and six cantatas. Some original scores are fragmentary, were handed down in copies made by other musicians or exist in part-books in Bach's handwriting for individual voices or instruments. Only a portion of Bach's works exist in complete autographs - original manuscripts in the composer's own handwriting. Thomas Venning, manuscript expert for Christie's, described Bach's handwriting on the score as 'very flowing and graceful.' Noting that paper was expensive in Bach's time, he explained that the paper used in this particular manuscript was of unusually high quality, and that only one other piece is known for which Bach used paper from the same factory. Who knows how much it will be worth the next time it changes hands? Image: picture-alliance/dpa/M. Hans-Christoph Rademann, director of the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, described having inspected the manuscript as 'an experience comparable to seeing a painting in the original' and suggested that the clarity of the handwriting indicates Bach probably penned the composition in a single setting. Viewing it was described by Chantal Nastasi, culture reporter with German public broadcaster NDR, as a 'special moment.' She described the paper as 'yellowed, almost browned.' A likeness of the composer at the Bach museum in Eisenach Image: picture-alliance/dpa/M. Like many works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), it can be played on different instruments, which is expressly indicated on this score in the composer's handwriting: 'Prelude pour la Luth ò Cembal' (for lute or keyboard).īefore the auction, the privately-owned score, not having changed hands or been seen in public since 1969, was exhibited in Hamburg, Munich, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart, then making its way to showings in New York and Japan. Likely written between 17, the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat Major (BWV 998) is a favorite among both harpsichords and lutenists.

At the auction on Wednesday () in London, the final bid came in at the high end of expectations. The manuscript's value was originally estimated at between 1.5 and 2.5 million pounds (between 2 and 3.3 million dollars).

Bach manuscript and sheet music background