Neue Bachgesellschaft
The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft, which between 1850 and 1900 produced a complete edition of Bach's works, publishing many pieces for the first time. On completion of these collected works (the Bach-Ausgabe), the original Society dissolved itself.
The new Society approved three enduring projects:
- the annual edition of a Bach-Jahrbuch (Bach yearbook)[1]
- biannual (today: annual) Bachfeste (Bach festivals). The venues of the Bachfest have mainly been in Germany, but the 2012 Festival had an international dimension, being held in Görlitz-Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border.
- the founding of a Bach museum. In 1907 the Society opened the first museum dedicated to Bach at Eisenach, the town where he was born. This Bachhaus is managed by the Bachhaus Eisenach gemeinnützige GmbH, a registered charitable company, with the New Bach Society as its sole associate.
The Society has not been directly involved in publishing scores in the way that its predecessor was. However, in 1950 it recommended that the second complete edition of Bach's music be undertaken, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA, in English: New Bach Edition). The project was a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, West Germany, and Leipzig, East Germany, in order to stress that the common cultural heritage was indivisible.
References
- ^ "Bach Jahrbuch". Bach Archive Leipzig. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
External links
- New Bach Society website
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lyrics
- Printed during the composer's lifetime: cantata Gott ist mein König (1708); Clavier-Übung I (1726–1730; 1731); Picander's 1728–29 cycle of cantata librettos; Clavier-Übung II (1735); Clavier-Übung III (1739); Goldberg Variations (1741); Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" (1747); The Musical Offering (1747); Schübler Chorales (1748)
- After 1750: The Art of Fugue (1751); Four-part chorales (1765–1787); Bach-Gesellschaft edition (1851-1899); New Bach Edition (1954–2007)
scholarship
- Nekrolog (1754)
- Forkel's Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke (1802)
- Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach (Vol. I: 1873; Vol. II: 1880)
- Bach-Jahrbuch (1904–...)
- Schmieder's Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1950; 21990; 2a1998)
- Bach Digital (2010–...)
- Bach Gesellschaft
- Neue Bachgesellschaft
- Bach Archive
- Johann Sebastian Bach Institute
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