Breitkopf & Hartel Complete Organ Works: Urtext New Edition in 10 Volumes - Bach - Organ - Box Set

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Editors: Various
Format: Box Set
Instrumentation: Organ

With repertoire works, musicians often have the choice between editions conceived for practical music-making and others that are more scholarly in concept. This also applies to the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, which are available today in various editions. Among them is that of Heinz Lohmann, which Breitkopf & Hartel began publishing in 1967 and whose concept strove for an amalgamation of practice and Urtext.

Current Urtext status, historically informed, edited with performers in mind
More than 40 years later, the demands made on an Urtext edition of Bach's organ works are as stringent as ever before. Next to the results of scholarly research on Bach and the sources, aspects of a historically informed performance practice are increasingly claiming our attention today. Also important for study, teaching and concert performance are, in addition to the above-mentioned demands, such external criteria as format, paper, convenient page turns and an easily legible layout that helps the user quickly grasp the musical context.

Breitkopf & Hartel's new edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works wants to do justice to these demands. Next to the core contents of the repertoire, it will also feature all of the master's "clavier" works which require an independent pedal. Moreover, it will include all authentic early versions as well as the fragmentarily transmitted works. As to the dubious works, it will contain those which can be attributed to Bach today with considerable certainty.

Contents:

• Vol. 1: Preludes and Fugues I edited by David Schulenberg
• Vol. 2: Preludes and Fugues II edited by David Schulenberg
• Vol. 3: Fantasias - Fugues edited by Pieter Dirksen
• Vol. 4: Toccatas and Fugues / Individual Works edited by Jean-Claude Zehnder
• Vol. 5: Sonatas / Trios / Concertos edited by Pieter Dirksen
• Vol. 6: Clavierubung III / SchublerChorale / Canonische Veranderungen uber "Vom Himmel hoch" edited by Werner Breig
• Vol. 7: Orgelbuchlein edited by Sven Hiemke
• Vol. 8: Organ chorales of the Leipzig manuscript ("Great Eighteen Chorales" ) edited by Jean-Claude Zehnder
• Vol. 9: Choral Partitas / Individually transmitted Choral Settings I edited by Reinmar Emans and Matthias Schneider
• Vol. 10: Individually transmitted Choral Settings II edited by Reinmar Emans and Matthias Schneider