Bach Society Leipzig
The Bach Society in Leipzig in 1850 for the 100th anniversary of the death of composer and Thomas cantor Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig initiated. This was done by the composers Robert Schumann , Franz Liszt , Ignaz Moscheles and Louis Spohr , the Mozart biographer Otto Jahn , the musicologist Carl von Winterfeld , the music theorist Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn , the teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Carl Ferdinand Becker , the Thomaskantor Moritz Hauptmann and the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house. Its foundation only served the purpose of publishing Bach's rich compositional oeuvre in a complete edition that was published by founding member Breitkopf & Härtel.
The Bach Society should not be confused with the Bach Society , which Heinrich von Herzogenberg founded in Leipzig in 1874 together with Franz von Holstein , Philipp Spitta and Alfred Volkland and which he led himself from 1875 onwards.
The widespread dissemination and reception of Bach's works began in the Bach renaissance of the 19th century , justified by the re -execution of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1829 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Carl Friedrich Zelters Sing-Akademie zu Berlin and Johann Nepomuk Schelbles Cäcilienchor in Frankfurt am Main , which made the work of the almost forgotten composer known only in professional circles to the public at the time.
In addition to the founders, the Bach connoisseur and later Thomaskantor Wilhelm Rust , who joined the Bach Society in the founding year 1850, made a contribution to the creation of the Bach Complete Edition . Since 1853 he has worked on the publication of the Bach Complete Edition, from 1858 he took over its management and wrote forewords to individual volumes of the edition.
In 1851 the first volume of the Bach Complete Edition was available. It contained cantatas 1–10, edited by Moritz Hauptmann . The course of the edition reflected the state of the musical edition technique at the time, but was also able to develop it decisively, for example with Volume XIV (1866), which contained the Well-Tempered Clavier published by Franz Kroll . The edition does not meet today's demands on editing technology. It contains a number of errors, sometimes selects work versions arbitrarily, in particular the Critical Reports are too short. Nevertheless, the volumes of the Bach Society were a groundbreaking achievement and contributed significantly to the study and appreciation of Bach's music. They remained the standard edition of Bach's works, which was only gradually replaced by other editions in the course of the 20th century. a. by the New Bach Edition published by the Deutsches Verlag für Musik and Bärenreiter- Verlag. Sources on the creation process of the Bach Complete Edition can be found condensed in the letter copy books of the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house as well as the surviving engravings and proofs that are in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives.
When the goal of publishing the (old) Bach edition in 50 volumes - 46 (47) volumes and supplement volume - was reached in 1899, the (old) Bach Society dissolved in accordance with its statutes in 1900. At the same time, the Neue Bachgesellschaft e. V. founded on January 27, 1900 in Leipzig. It is not in the legal succession, but in the tradition of the old Bach Society.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.adwmainz.de: Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz: Johann Sebastian Bach - New edition of all works.
literature
- Bach Society of Leipzig (Ed.): Bach Complete Edition. Johann Sebastian Bach's works . 46 vintages and supplement. Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1851–1899.
- Karen Lehmann: The Beginnings of a Bach Complete Edition. Editions of the piano works by Hoffmeister and Kühnel (Bureau de Musique) and CF Peters in Leipzig 1801–1865. A contribution to the history of JS Bach's impact . Olms, Hildesheim et al. 2004, ISBN 3-487-12577-3 . ( Leipzig contributions to Bach research 6), (Simultaneously: Dresden, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2003).