Reconstruction of music by Johann Sebastian Bach information
Lost versions of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach can be reconstructed on the basis of extant versions of similar music. Reasons for such reconstructions include extension of the repertoire and testing hypotheses about the genesis history of known pieces. For instance, in the late 19th century it was discovered that Bach likely transcribed his Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060, from a lost earlier version for violin and oboe.[1][2] Reconstructions of BWV 1060 to its presumed original version, published from the 1920s, extended the Bach repertoire for oboists.[3][4]
A more elaborate undertaking was the reconstruction of Bach's lost St Mark Passion, BWV 247: its libretto, printed in 1732, survived without music.[5] Bach's two surviving Passions (St Matthew and St John) are among the composer's most often performed vocal works, and Bach's most popular oratorio, the Christmas Oratorio, written in the early 1730s like the St Mark Passion, was apparently to a large extent based on earlier compositions by Bach: a similar assumption was made for the St Mark.[6] From the second half of the 20th century, there were several attempts to reconstruct the St Mark based on extant material from Bach's music library.[7]
Since the 19th century, a violin concerto model has been suggested for Bach's first Harpsichord Concerto, BWV 1052: the violin concertos resulting from various reconstruction attempts seem to indicate, at least according to Peter Wollny, that for this harpsichord concerto there was likely no violin concerto model.[8] In the 1980s Peter Williams suggested that the well-known Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, for organ, may have been based on piece for violin: in this case the violin version reconstruction appeared to be more convincing.[9][10] In the introduction of the 1990 second edition of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV), Wolfgang Schmieder suggested to indicate reconstructions by the addition of a "R" to the BWV number of the extant version of the composition on which the reconstruction was based, thus, e.g. the violin and oboe version of the BWV 1060 concerto would be numbered BWV 1060R.[11]
^Voigt 1886.
^Butt 2015, p. 5.
^Seiffert 1920.
^Schneider 1924.
^Picander (=Christian Friedrich Henrici). Ernst-Schertzhaffte und Satyrische Gedichte, Volume III. Leipzig: Joh. Theod. Boetii Tochter (1732; 2nd printing 1737), pp. 49–69. (in German)
^Wilhelm Rust. "Vorwort" (Preface) of Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, Vol. 20.2: Kammermusik für Gesang – Band 2. Bärenreiter, 1873, pp. VIII–IX. (in German)
^"St Mark Passion BWV 247". Bach Digital. Leipzig: Bach Archive; et al. 2019-05-15.
^Wollny 2015, p. 6.
^Williams, Peter (July 1981). "BWV 565: a toccata in D minor for organ by J. S. Bach?" pp. 330–337 in Early Music Vol. 9, No. 3.
^Rockwell, John (September 13, 1984). "Concert: Academy of Ancient Music". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
^Schmieder 1990, p. XXXV.
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