Baerenreiter Verlag Organ Works, Volume 4 - Bach/Tessmer/Wolff - Organ - Book

Third Part of the Clavier Ubung

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editors: Manfred Tessmer, Christoph Wolff
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Organ

• With altered readings integrated into the musical text taking into account new musicological evidence
• With a new Preface (Ger/Eng) discussing this work and its sources by Christoph Wolff
• With links to the relevant sources in Bach digital via http://links.baerenreiter.com
• Newly engraved and with improved page turns
• Format: 24cm x 30.5cm

In 1739 Bach's Third Part of the Clavier Ubung was published on 80 pages closely printed. Ever since then the collection has been regarded as a high point in the history of organ composition as it offers an impressive cross section of Bach's artistry.

This present volume is an updated edition of Volume 4, Series IV, of the New Bach Edition, presented by Manfred Tessmer in 1969. A fully revised edition proved unnecessary, as there were relatively few corrections affecting the musical text. However, the volume now includes a detailed Preface by Christoph Wolff which discusses not only the work's genesis but also offers an up-to-date description of the sources. For the new engraving of the musical text page-turns were reviewed and improved.

Bach's autograph is considered lost and so the main source is the original print of the collection from 1739. In collaboration with the Leipzig Bach Archive and its database Bach digital this new edition includes links to two important copies of the original print which contain hand-written entries by Bach himself.

Any complete scholarly-critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must, in the interest of its use by researchers and performers, incorporate intervening new discoveries wherever possible. With this in mind, Baerenreiter has entered an agreement with the Leipzig Bach Archive to reissue particular volumes as applicable, either in updated performing editions based on the New Bach Edition or in thoroughly revised editions based on the New Bach Edition - revised. In this way, each new performing edition will represent the cutting edge of research.

Further hallmarks of this new generation of Urtext editions will be detailed, up-to-date Prefaces and newly engraved musical texts with optimum page turns. Each volume will list incipits with links to the relevant manuscripts in Bach digital thereby enabling the user to gain quick access to the sources.

Contents:

• Preface
• The Melodies Used in the Third Part of the Clavier Ubung
• Praeludium pro Organo pleno BWV 552/1
• Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit BWV 669
• Christe, aller Welt Trost BWV 670
• Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671
• Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit BWV 672
• Christe, aller Welt Trost BWV 673
• Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 674
• Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr BWV 675
• Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr BWV 676
• Fughetta super "Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr" BWV 677
• Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot BWV 678
• Fughetta super "Dies sind die heiligen zehen Gebot" BWV 679
• Wir glauben all an einen Gott BWV 680
• Fughetta super "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" BWV 681
• Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 682
• Vater unser im Himmelreich BWV 683
• Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam BWV 684
• Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam BWV 685
• Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 686
• Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 687
• Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandt BWV 688
• Fuga super "Jesus Christus, unser Heiland" BWV 689
• Duetto I BWV 802
• Duetto II BWV 803
• Duetto III BWV 804
• Duetto IV BWV 805
• Fuga a 5 con Pedale, pro Organo pleno BWV 552/2