The Neue Bachgesellschaft , or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig , Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach . It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft , which between 1850 and 1900 produced a complete edition of Bach's works, publishing many pieces for the first time. On completion of these collected works (the Bach-Ausgabe ), the original Society dissolved itself.
19-646: The new Society approved three enduring projects: The Society has not been directly involved in publishing scores in the way that its predecessor was. However, in 1950 it recommended that the second complete edition of Bach's music be undertaken, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA, in English: New Bach Edition). The project was a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, West Germany , and Leipzig, East Germany , in order to stress that
38-411: Is a catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach . It was first published in 1950, edited by Wolfgang Schmieder . The catalogue's second edition appeared in 1990. An abbreviated version of that second edition, known as BWV , was published in 1998. The catalogue groups compositions by genre. Even within a genre, compositions are not necessarily collated chronologically. For example, BWV 992
57-685: 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in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished.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
76-561: 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
95-788: The NBE). Approximately 15 more volumes are planned, including Weimar cantatas (five works), the St John Passion , the motets, the violin sonatas , the cello suites and others. In 2001 the German Association of Music Publishers ( Deutscher Musikverlegerverband ) awarded a special prize to the New Bach Edition in recognition of editorial achievement. Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis ( BWV ; lit. ' Bach works catalogue ' ; German: [ˈbax ˈvɛrkə fɛrˈtsaeçnɪs] )
114-518: 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
133-486: The catalogue, based on the 1990 second edition. This edition, known as BWV , contained a few further updates and collation rearrangements. New additions ( Nachträge ) to BWV /BWV included: Numbers above BWV 1126 were added in the 21st century. A revised version (3rd edition in total) of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was originally announced by the Bach Archive for publication in 2020, however it
152-528: 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
171-421: The common cultural heritage was indivisible. This article about a music organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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
190-526: The editor of that catalogue, grouped the compositions by genre, largely following the 19th-century Bach Gesellschaft (BG) edition for the collation (e.g., BG cantata number = BWV number of the cantata): The Anhang of the BWV listed works that were not suitable for the main catalogue, in three sections: Within each section of the Anhang the works are sorted by genre, following the same sequence of genres as
209-607: The first decade of the 21st century. Provenance of standard texts and tunes, such as Lutheran hymns and their chorale melodies , Latin liturgical texts (e.g. Magnificat ) and common tunes (e.g. Folia ), are not usually indicated in this column. For an overview of such resources used by Bach, see individual composition articles, and overviews in, e.g., Chorale cantata (Bach)#Bach's chorale cantatas , List of chorale harmonisations by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale harmonisations in various collections and List of organ compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach#Chorale Preludes . Appearing in
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#1732775409966228-401: The main catalogue. Schmieder published the BWV's second edition in 1990, with some modifications regarding authenticity discriminations, and more works added to the main catalogue and the Anhang . Several compositions were repositioned in the over-all structure of chapters organised by genre and Anhang sections. In 1998 Alfred Dürr and Yoshitake Kobayashi published a small edition of
247-577: 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
266-555: 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
285-541: 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
304-468: 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
323-433: Was composed many years before BWV 1 . BWV numbers were assigned to 1,126 compositions in the 20th century, and more have been added to the catalogue in the 21st century. The Anhang (Anh.; Annex) of the BWV lists over 200 lost, doubtful and spurious compositions. The first edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis was published in 1950. It allocated a unique number to every known composition by Bach. Wolfgang Schmieder ,
342-466: Was delayed and only finally published in 2022. The numbers assigned to compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and by others in the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis are widely used for the unique identification of these compositions. Exceptionally BWV numbers are also indicated as Schmieder (S) numbers (e.g. S. 225 = BWV 225 ). BWV numbers 1 to 1126 appear in the 1998 edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis . BWV numbers above 1126 were assigned from
361-521: 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,
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