The Neumeister Collection is a compilation of 82 chorale preludes found in a manuscript copy produced by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1757–1840). When the manuscript was rediscovered at Yale University in the 1980s it appeared to contain 31 previously unknown early chorale settings by Johann Sebastian Bach , which were added to the BWV catalogue as Nos. 1090–1120, and published in 1985.
24-430: Neumeister compiled his manuscript after 1790. It has been suggested that the 77 earliest works in the collection may have been copied from a single source, possibly a Bach family album put together in J. S. Bach's early years. The five works by Neumeister's own music teacher, Georg Andreas Sorge , were a later addition. Some time after 1807 the manuscript passed to Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846), whose library
48-565: A selection of facsimiles of its sources. In 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
72-660: 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 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
96-666: The Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. The first complete edition of Bach's music 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
120-486: The Orgelbüchlein , previously considered his earliest essays in the form, in a fresh light: the Orgelbüchlein pieces are not the work of a precocious beginner, but of an already practised hand. Wolff published the chorale preludes by J. S. Bach in 1985, and a facsimile of the complete collection in 1986. Scores of the other composers here: https://partitura.org/index.php/bach-johann-michael/ A facsimile of
144-486: The 40 Neumeister chorales with a BWV number, four are not included in this edition: The NBA volume presented Bach's Neumeister Chorales in the order in which they occurred in the Neumeister manuscript. The 2018 last two volumes of Breitkopf & Härtel (B&H)'s new Urtext edition of Bach's organ works included them in alphabetical order, that is, together with other chorale preludes transmitted independently of
168-474: The Arnstädter Chorales. Five of them were already known from other sources: The other thirty-three were partly or wholly new: The Arnstädter Chorales are considered on stylistic grounds to be early works, probably dating from 1703 to 1707, when Bach was active at Arnstadt , and possibly even earlier. They provide a new window on his formative years as a composer and cast the chorale preludes in
192-565: The author of all five, while allowing that one could also have been written by J. S. Bach and another by Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. The rediscovery of the Neumeister Collection quadrupled the number of keyboard works indisputably written by Johann Michael Bach, from eight to thirty-two, with six more arguably also his. Of the twenty-five pieces attributed to him in the manuscript, seven were known but had been credited to other composers and eighteen were entirely new, making this
216-766: The collections collated by the composer. The B&H edition includes 35 chorale preludes of the Neumeister Collection: apart from the four BWV numbers not adopted in the NBA edition, it additionally omits BWV 1096 (likely composed by J. Pachelbel). The Bach chorales in the Neumeister Collection attracted the interest of organists even before they were published. They were first performed privately by Wilhelm Krumbach at Utrecht in January 1985, and publicly by John Ferris and Charles Krigbaum at Yale in March. Later
240-608: The entire collection was published in 1986. In the 21st century facsimile renderings of the Neumeister manuscript became available on the Bach Digital website. Christoph Wolff's 2003 edition Orgelchoräle der Neumeister-Sammlung ( Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection ), Score and Critical Commentary, Volume 9 of Series IV: Organ Works of the New Bach Edition ( Neue Bach-Ausgabe , NBA), includes 36 chorales (BWV 714, 719, 737, 742, 957 and 1090–1120). Of
264-486: The five anonymous preludes: The rediscovered manuscript prompted revisions to J. S. Bach's catalogue and reconsideration of his musical development. The collection contains 40 chorales with a BWV number: Two chorales of the first edition of the BWV catalogue are no longer generally associated with J. S. Bach: The other thirty-eight works are most often attributed to J. S. Bach, and are sometimes referred to as
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#1732793159525288-457: The largest single trove of his work. This remains the case even if, as some have suggested, one of the chorales that appears under his name would have been composed by Johann Heinrich Buttstett . Wolff has proposed that the five unattributed works in the volume could also be by Johann Michael Bach—confidently in three cases, less so in the other two. Generally attributed to J. M. Bach: Likely by J. M. Bach: Possibly by J. M. Bach,
312-571: The latest scholarship. Although the NBE is an urtext edition rather than a facsimile edition, it includes many facsimiles of Bach manuscripts. In 1950, 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
336-472: The manuscript was genuine, they announced the discovery in December 1984. Their conclusions were confirmed in January 1985 by German organist Wilhelm Krumbach [ de ] (1937–2005), who had been working on the same material independently, and with a fatal lack of urgency, since 1981. Wolff acknowledged that he brought his announcement forward when he learned that Krumbach was in the field. Krumbach
360-678: The new edition their life's project. The publishers were Bärenreiter in Kassel , chosen in 1951 by 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,
384-577: 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
408-515: The project possible, supported by the editor Karl Vötterle . The Neue Bachgesellschaft recommended to pursue 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
432-677: The same year, Joseph Payne made the world-premiere recording for Harmonia Mundi at St. Paul's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts , working from a photostat of the Yale manuscript, and Werner Jacob made the first recording of the Wolff edition for EMI -Angel on a restored Johann Andreas Silbermann organ at Arlesheim cathedral. Georg Andreas Sorge Georg Andreas Sorge (21 March 1703 in Mellenbach , Thuringia – 4 April 1778)
456-566: 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
480-459: Was Georg von Dadelsen . The edition 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
504-671: Was an organist , composer , and, most notably, theorist . His references to Johann Sebastian Bach show that they were friends, and he composed three fugues for organ on the name BACH ( BWV Anh. 107, 108 and 110). He joined Lorenz Christoph Mizler 's Corresponding Society of Musical Sciences in 1747, just a month after Bach himself. Sorge's writings on thorough-bass and harmony are very competent, and his theoretical grasp of unequal temperaments excelled even that of J. G. Neidhardt (though still taking 1 ⁄ 12 comma as an indivisible unit of measure. He cited Bach as 'witness' that regular 1 ⁄ 6 -comma meantone temperament
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#1732793159525528-463: Was bought by Lowell Mason in 1852. After Mason's death in 1873, his collection was acquired by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. There the Neumeister volume lay as manuscript LM 4708 until it was rediscovered "early in 1984" by musicologists Christoph Wolff ( Harvard ), Hans-Joachim Schulze ( Bach-Archiv Leipzig ), and librarian Harold E. Samuel (Yale). After satisfying themselves that
552-491: Was inadequate to 'modern' harmony, and he dismissed Johann Philipp Kirnberger 's schemes of temperament as 'no good'. More information about Sorge and equal temperament see: https://www.academia.edu/5210832/18th_Century_Quotations_Relating_to_J.S._Bach_s_Temperament This biographical article about a German musicologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New Bach Edition The New Bach Edition (NBE) ( German : Neue Bach-Ausgabe ; NBA),
576-518: Was unhappy with the way things turned out. The Neumeister Collection contains 82 chorales, most of them unpublished before the 1980s re-evaluation of the Neumeister manuscript. The attribution of a few pieces in the manuscript remains uncertain: From the state of the manuscript Wolff concludes that the five unattributed works were written by composers represented elsewhere in the collection, whose names were omitted by accident. Weighing both textual and stylistic evidence, he proposes Johann Michael Bach as
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