Baerenreiter Verlag Organ Works, Volume 9 - Bach/Wolff - Organ - Book

Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection (Yale University Manuscript "LM 4708")

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Editor: Christoph Wolff
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Organ

• Links to relevant sources in "Bach digital"
• Detailed new Foreword about the Neumeister Collection by Christoph Wolff (Ger/Eng)
• Complete new engraving

In 1985 Christoph Wolff, working at Yale University, discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose forebears stem from the Northern German organ tradition. Already these early works comprising fantasias, fugues, fughettas and imitative techniques employing motifs from chorale melodies bear witness to Bach's broad compositional spectrum.

This newly published volume is an updated edition of Series IV/9 of the New Bach Edition (NBA), edited by Christoph Wolff and based on this source. In addition to a newly added concordance and corrections to the musical text, it also contains a detailed Foreword by Christoph Wolff with further information on the Neumeister Collection and hymnological details. The source of the complete Neumeister Collection has recently been made available on "Bach digital", shedding light on the manuscript for the very first time.

Links to major sources have been provided in collaboration with the Bach Leipzig Archive and its database "Bach digital". The desired page of the source can be accessed quickly and conveniently via URLs at http://links.baerenreiter.com. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis.

Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now all of Baerenreiter's new performing editions of Bach's organ works are being revised to reflect the current state of scholarship and to convey maximum fidelity to the sources by being linked to "Bach digital".

Contents:

• Preface
• The Chorale Melodies
• Alphabetical Index
• Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection:
  • Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich / Ein Kindelein so lobelich BWV 719
  • Wir Christenleut BWV 1090
  • Das alte Jahr vergangen ist BWV 1091
  • Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf BWV 1092
  • Herzliebster Jesus, was hast du verbrochen BWV 1093
  • O Jesu, wie ist dein Gestalt BWV 1094
  • O Lamm Gottes unschuldig BWV 1095
  • Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht / Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 1096
  • Ehre sei dir Christe, der du leidest Not BWV 1097
  • Wir glauben all an einen Gott BWV 1098
  • Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 1099
  • Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 1100
  • Ach, Gott und Herr BWV 714
  • Ach Herr, mich armen Sunder / Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV 742
  • Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt BWV 1101
  • Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ BWV 1102
  • Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort BWV 1103
  • Vater unser im Himmelreich / Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott BWV 737
  • Wenn dich Ungluck tut greifen an BWV 1104
  • Jesu, meine Freude BWV 1105
  • Gott ist mein Heil, mein Hilf und Trost BWV 1106
  • Jesu, meines Lebens Leben BWV 1107
  • Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht BWV 1108
  • Ach Gott, tu dich erbarmen BWV 1109
  • O Herre Gott, dein gottlich Wort BWV 1110
  • Nun lasst uns den Leib begraben BWV 1111
  • Christus, der ist mein Leben BWV 1112
  • Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt BWV 1113
  • Herr Jesu Christ, du hochstes Gut BWV 1114
  • Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr BWV 1115
  • Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan BWV 1116
  • Alle Menschen mussen sterben BWV 1117
  • Machs mit mir, Gott, nach deiner Gute BWV 957
  • Werde munter mein Gemute BWV 1118
  • Wie nach einer Wasserquelle BWV 1119
• Appendix: Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection in other Transmission of Sources:
  • Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich BWV 719
  • Fuga BWV 957/1
  • Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht, zu BWV 1096
  • Fuga "Christe, der du bist Tag und Licht" nach J. Pachelbel