![]() ![]() Researchers in Germany say they have unearthed two previously unknown manuscripts written by Johann Sebastian Bach when he was a teenage organist. His most famous works include the Brandenburg concertos and the Mass in B minor.Įxperts say the composer's script was quite distinctive The Weimar archives in the Anna Amalia Library have already yielded an unknown early Bach aria, adding to the few surviving pieces which remain from his early career.Īcknowledged by many as the greatest Baroque composer, Bach was born in 1685 and died in 1750. The two handwritten pieces are copies of " Nun freut Euch lieben Christen gmein" by Dietrich Buxtehude and "An Wasserfluessen Babylon" by Johann Adam Reincken. ![]() "This is something we have never had any indication of previously." "Technically, they are demanding, compositionally they are demanding and they show what the 13- to 15-year-old Bach was capable of," he added. #BACH ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS ARCHIVE#"We have until now not had anything dated before 1700 and what is particularly important is that these are not just manuscripts but musical arrangements which are particularly demanding," said Christoph Wolff, director of the Bach archive in Leipzig. They were found among archives in a library in the eastern city of Weimar. The works, one of which is dated 1700 when Bach was only 15 and the other thought to be even older, are copies of other composers' choral pieces, arranged for organ by Bach. ![]() 21.Įarly Bach manuscripts reveal teenage talentīerlin (Reuters) - Previously unknown manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach, recently discovered in Germany, prove that the prolific German composer was a virtuoso even as a teenager, researchers said on Thursday. 1 and at the Bach Archiv in Leipzig from Sept. The manuscripts will be exhibited at the library from Sept. Schubart succeeded Bach as organist at the court of Weimar in 1717, and the newly discovered documents were passed to the library as part of Schubart's estate, the foundation said.īoth the manuscripts and the aria found last year were unearthed by researchers from the Bach Archiv foundation in Leipzig, who have been combing German archives for information about the composer since 2002. ![]() It said the find also made clear that Bach went to Lüneburg in order to learn more about the influential North German organ school in Hamburg and Lübeck. "Technically highly demanding, these organ works document the extraordinary virtuoso skills of the young Bach as well as his efforts to master the most ambitious and complex pieces of the entire organ repertoire," the foundation said. The manuscripts were found together with two previously unknown fantasias by Johann Pachelbel, copied by Bach's student Johann Martin Schubart. He was a 15-year-old schoolboy when he copied the two chorale fantasias - " Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein" by Buxtehude and " An Wasserfluessen Babylon" by Reincken.īach attached a note to the Reincken copy that confirmed he was studying at the time with the organist Georg Böhm in the north German town of Lüneburg, the foundation said. The foundation said the discovery provided vital clues about Bach's early development. While some 50,000 books were lost, the Bach scripts survived because they had been stored in the building's vault. The library, housed in a 16th-century palace, was badly damaged by a fire in September 2004. Researchers found the documents in the archives of the Duchess Anna Amalia library in Weimar, where a previously unknown aria by Bach was discovered last year. The two manuscripts contain copies that Bach made of organ music composed by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reincken, and date from around 1700, said Hellmut Seemann, president of the Foundation of Weimar Classics. Weimar, Germany German researchers said Thursday they have discovered the oldest known handwritten manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach. German researchers find earliest Bach manuscripts ![]()
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