Andreas-Bach-Buch (Andreas Bach Book), named after one of its owners, Johann Andreas Bach is a manuscript collection of 57 keyboard pieces, compiled by Johann Christoph Bach from Ohrdruf, the elder brother of Johann Sebastian Bach. The collection dates from the years 1704 to 1714,[1][2] but includes older pieces. It is held in the music library of the Stadtbibliothek Leipzig (Municipal Library Leipzig).[3]
This manuscript contains 15 compositions by J. S. Bach and is one of the important sources for many North German composers, for example Johann Adam Reincken, Dieterich Buxtehude and Georg Böhm who are the great masters in the training of Bach.[4][5] Johann Christoph Bach left another collection, the Möller manuscript (Möllersche Handschrift) after its owner, Johann Godfried Möller (1774–1833) – born in Ohrdruf – and which contains almost as many pieces, copied between 1704 and 1707. These manuscripts are together the two main sources for Bach's early compositions[6] and contain the only sources of some works, including six by Buxtehude.
References
edit- ^ Jones 2006, p. 6.
- ^ Cantagrel 2008.
- ^ Bach 1705–1714.
- ^ Apel 1997, p. 5.
- ^ Williams 1985, p. 163.
- ^ Hill 1991, p. 17.
Sources
edit- Apel, Willi (1997) [1972]. The History of Keyboard Music to 1700. Translated by Hans Tischler. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-13790-6. OCLC 412121.
- Bach, Johann Christoph (1705–1714). "D-LEm Becker III.8.4 Andreas-Bach-Buch". Bach digital.
- Cantagrel, Gilles (2008). De Schütz à Bach:La musique du baroque en Allemagne (in French). Paris: Fayard. ISBN 978-2-213-63832-4. OCLC 311743762.
- Hill, Robert, ed. (1991). Introduction to Keyboard Music from the Andreas Bach Book and the Möller Manuscript. Harvard Publications in Music 16. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674588943. OCLC 23839483.
- Jones, Richard Douglas P. (2006). The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach. Vol. I. 1995–1717. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-151324-4. OCLC 507007811. OL 35892870M.
- Williams, Peter Williams (1985). Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Tercentenary Essays. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-25217-2. OCLC 10799759.
External links
edit- Andreas-Bach-Buch, D-LEm Becker III.8.4 (various): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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