Weimar Organ Tablature Johann Sebastian Bach’s earliest music manuscripts, and copies by his pupil Johann Martin Schubart With works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Adam Reinken and Johann Pachelbel Transcription edited by Michael Maul and Peter Wollny BA 5248 € 19.95

Early Bach manuscripts discovered In contrast with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, very little was known about Johann Sebastian Bach’s early years until recently. His early works, such as the Easter cantata »Christ lag in Todesbanden« or the »Actus tragicus«, reveal a composer who achieved mastery at a young age, but not the route to this status. In Weimar, Peter Wollny and Michael Maul have now discovered copies of works by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reinken made by Bach between the ages of twelve and fifteen. This publication contains transcriptions of the original tablature notation as a critical edition. It includes an extensive foreword which describes the source and the likely conditions in which Bach made the transcriptions. This publication provides the first reliable edition of Reinken's An Wasserflüssen Babylon and the earliest source of Buxtehude's Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein. Two chorale preludes by Pachelbel set the performing practice scene of the time; the numerous ornaments are probably even by Bach himself.