Neue Bach-Ausgabe
The New Bach Edition ( = Johann Sebastian Bach: New Edition of the Complete Works, abbreviated NBA ) is a historical- critical edition of all the works of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750 ). It was built by Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen ( closing end of 2006) and published by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. 1954, the first volume in the Kassel Bärenreiter. In June 2007, the NBA was concluded with a ceremony during the Bach Festival Leipzig.
Content
The output includes in eight series 96 music volumes, the corresponding critical commentaries and 5 supplementary volumes:
- I. cantatas (46 volumes)
- II masses, passions, Oratorio works (9 volumes)
- III. Motets, hymns, songs (4 volumes)
- IV Organ Works ( 11 volumes )
- V. piano and lute works ( 14 volumes )
- VI. Chamber music ( 5 volumes)
- VII Orchestral Works (7 volumes)
- VIII canon, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue (2 volumes)
- Supplement, Bach documents (8 volumes)
The music volumes contain, besides a preface a selection of facsimiles of the relevant sources. Separately a critical report, which describes all the other obtained at a plant sources and their dependency, and also telling all reliable data on the composition and origin of the discussed Edition questions for each grade band appears. In addition to works perfectly preserved found in the volumes of the individual series also narrated fragments recording.
Importance
The New Bach Edition as Urtext edition of the science and practice provides a reliable musical text. Your strict philological methods have set standards for the modern critical scholarly edition beings in the second half of the 20th century.
Work on the NBA have led to discoveries of lost compositions and were well-known work on the inventory clarify questions of authenticity. In particular, but the discussion of the sources of Bach's works has led to a substantial correction of the chronology and with it created the basis for the revision of the Bach - image in our time.
In their result, the NBA reflects a significant piece of history of Bach research. The German musicology in the second half of the 20th century owes her a good part of their reputation. In addition, conductors, soloists and ensembles all over the world the standard that the New Bach Edition has set, recognized and made it the basis for their performances.
Genesis
In 1950, the main events for the 200th anniversary of Bach's death in Göttingen and Leipzig had given the decisive impulse to a new critical edition. The fact that it was used in an economical yet uncertain time, scientists such as Friedrich Blume, Max Schneider, Friedrich and Heinrich Smend Besseler to thank the sponsors Bernhard Sprengel and Otto Benecke and the risk-taking initiative of the publisher Karl Vötterle.
The simultaneous recommendation of the New Bach Society to perform this first major editorial projects after the Second World War as a total German company and to reaffirm in this way the indivisibility of German culture, found approval in the world. As the editor of the Leipzig Bach Archive and the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen offered the best conditions for the professional supervision, mainly driven by the stream time, Werner Neumann and Alfred Dürr, which made the new edition of her life's work. In the editorial care, in 1951 the Barenreiter -Verlag Kassel transferred from the federal government, the newly founded in 1954 in Leipzig, German publisher of music was included until the end of the division of Germany as a partner. The initially announced with 15 to 20 years maturity soon proved unrealistic. The increased claim, the science and practice presented in a modern edition, required a much larger effort. 2007, the NBA has been completed. By the end of 2006, the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen was therefore resolved.
Revision of the New Bach Edition
Beginning of February 2010 announced the Bach-Archiv Leipzig and the Bärenreiter on a revised version of individual volumes. During the decades-long duration of the New Bach Edition other sources have been discovered and developed new insights that suggest a revision of the published volumes in individual cases. There are initially planned 15 volumes; is in September 2010 as the first volume of the " New Bach Edition. Revised Edition", the B Minor Mass published. Announced are single Weimar cantatas, the St. John Passion, the motets, sonatas, suites for solo cello and others.