The German Bach-Gesellschaft (Bach Society) was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions. The collected works are known as the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausgabe . On completion of the project, the Society dissolved itself.
18-486: Joh. Seb. Bach's Werke ( lit. ' Joh. Seb. Bach's works ' ) is the Bach Gesellschaft 's collected edition of Johann Sebastian Bach 's compositions, published in 61 volumes in the second half of the 19th century. The series is also known as Bach-Gesellschaft edition ( German : Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe ; BGA ), or as Bach-Gesamtausgabe (BG; lit. ' Bach complete edition ' ). It
36-649: A revised edition ("Neue berichtige Ausgabe") of the English Suites and French Suites that had previously been published in Vol. 13. Among the editors was Alfred Dörffel . Johannes Brahms was one of the subscribers to the project and also served on the editorial board . A list of subscribers was printed in each volume. The volumes varied somewhat in editorial quality and accuracy; Bach scholar Hans T. David particularly criticized Vol. 31's presentation of The Musical Offering for numerous incorrect readings, and
54-522: A volume that started with BWV 1, the cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1 . It completed publication in 1900 with its forty-sixth volume. However, the edition of The Art of Fugue by Wolfgang Graeser , published in 1926, is sometimes counted as "Volume 47" and was issued as a supplement to the Bach-Gesellschaft publication by Breitkopf & Härtel , publishers of the original series. Additionally, Vol. 45, part 1 includes
72-553: Is a German-language edition: title pages and notes by editors are exclusively in German. A supplemental volume was published in 1926, a quarter of a century after the Bach Gesellschaft's dissolution. Another late addition to the series was Max Schneider 's 1935 revision of the fourth volume. All volumes, including the 20th-century additions, were published by Breitkopf & Härtel . As a complete edition of Bach's works it
90-526: The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica calls the edition as a whole "of very unequal merit." Britannica both lauds the editing of Wilhelm Rust for the edition and notes a deterioration of standards after his death, including a volume in which "the bass and violin are a bar apart for a whole line" (apparently a reference to sloppy editing). In his edition of the Goldberg Variations , Ralph Kirkpatrick also calls attention to several "mistakes of
108-606: The Neue Bachgesellschaft (New Bach Society), founded in 1900. The founders of the society were Moritz Hauptmann , cantor of the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig , (and thus a successor of Bach); Otto Jahn , author of a noted biography of Mozart ; Carl Ferdinand Becker , teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory; and the composer Robert Schumann . The Bach-Gesellschaft began publishing Bach's works in 1851 with
126-555: The Bachgesellschaft edition" that he has corrected, particularly with regard to the presentation of ornaments . (It is worth noting that the Bach-Gesellschaft volume containing the Goldbergs was one of the first to be published—Vol. 3, which appeared in 1853.) Nevertheless, the Bach-Gesellschaft's volumes were a groundbreaking achievement and contributed greatly to the study and appreciation of Bach's music. They remained
144-742: The Complete Works ( Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke ). It is a historical-critical edition (German: historisch-kritische Ausgabe ) of Bach's complete works by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. The first complete edition of Bach's music
162-561: The Federal Government, and from 1954 the Deutscher Verlag für Musik, a new publisher in Leipzig which was involved until the unification of Germany. Initially the duration of the edition was estimated as 15 to 20 years, but the scientific work with the sources required much more time than anticipated. The first volumes appeared in 1954. The director in Göttingen, from 1962 to 1963, was Georg von Dadelsen . The edition
180-518: The Score volumes variants and fragments of compositions are published along with complete works. The Critical Commentary volumes describe the history and sources (manuscript sources, early editions), and their interdependence, for each composition, and discuss editorial issues. The New Bach Edition presents a reliable version of Bach's music for both scientists and performers. Its strict philological methods were exemplary for critical scientific editions in
198-528: The commemorations of the bicentennial of Bach's death in Göttingen and Leipzig led to the initiative to publish his complete works in a critical scientific edition. Musicologists such as Friedrich Blume , Max Schneider , Friedrich Smend and Heinrich Besseler , and sponsors such as Bernhard Sprengel and Otto Benecke [ de ] made the project possible, supported by the editor Karl Vötterle . The Neue Bachgesellschaft recommended to pursue
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#1732791398716216-577: The page number of the score, the Bach Digital website also mentions the page number where the composition is discussed in the corresponding Critical Commentary volume. In February 2010 the Bach Archive and the publisher announced a revision of single volumes, in order to include new sources and findings. The first in this series of revisions was the Mass in B minor (updating the second volume of
234-555: The project as a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, then West Germany , and Leipzig, then East Germany , in order to stress that the common cultural heritage was indivisible. The Bach Archive and the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute collaborated, their directors Werner Neumann and Alfred Dürr made the new edition their life's project. The publishers were Bärenreiter in Kassel , chosen in 1951 by
252-615: The second half of the 20th century. In preparation for the NBE, lost compositions were found, whereas some known compositions proved to be not Bach's works. The examination of the sources corrected the chronology of his compositions. The second revised edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis , and the Bach-Digital website refer to the NBE volume and page number for every listed composition by Bach. In addition to listing
270-499: The standard edition of Bach's complete works until the publication of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe by Bärenreiter and the Deutscher Verlag für Musik (1954–2007). Neue Bach-Ausgabe The New Bach Edition (NBE) ( German : Neue Bach-Ausgabe ; NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach , published by Bärenreiter . The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): New Edition of
288-468: Was completed in June 2007. The edition contains in eight series over 100 volumes of scores (Notenbände), each Score (Partitur) volume complemented with a Critical Commentary (Kritischer Bericht) volume. The ninth series contains Addenda (7 volumes), and furthermore there is a Supplement of 9 volumes (Supplementbände): Each Score volume contains a preface and a selection of facsimiles of its sources. In
306-454: Was published in the second half of the nineteenth century by the Bach Gesellschaft ( Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe , BGA). The second complete edition includes some discoveries made since 1900, but there are relatively few such scores. The significance of the NBE lies more in its incorporation of the latest scholarship. Although the NBE is an urtext edition rather than a facsimile edition, it includes many facsimiles of Bach manuscripts. In 1950,
324-639: Was succeeded by the New Bach Edition , published between 1954 and 2007. The Year (Yr.) in the second column refers to the volume's date of publication, that is the date of the editor's Vorwort ('Preface') if different from the date on the title page. Gustav Mahler owned 59 of the 61 volumes of the Bach-Gesamtausgabe , and used them for his arrangements of some of Bach's compositions. Bach Gesellschaft The nineteenth-century society should be distinguished from its successor,
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