NEUE BACH-AUSGABE

The 'Neue Bach-Ausgabe' (in English, ''New Bach Edition'') is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. Its first volumes appeared in 1954 and, when fully complete, it is projected to extend over more than 100 volumes. It is the successor to the first complete edition of Bach's music published in the second half of the nineteenth century by the Bach Gesellschaft.
The completed ''Neue Bach-Ausgabe'' will consist of the following series:
:I. Cantatas (46 volumes)
:II. Masses, Passions, Oratorios (9 volumes)
:III. Motets, Chorales, Lieder (4 volumes)
:IV. Organ Works (9 volumes)
:V. Keyboard and Lute Works (14 volumes)
:VI. Chamber Music (5 volumes)
:VII. Orchestral Works (7 volumes)
:VIII. Canons, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue (2 volumes)
:IX. Addenda (approximately 7 volumes)
:Supplement, Bach Documents (5 volumes)

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Further Information

Source

★ Bärenreiter's page on the ''Neue Bach-Ausgabe'' and a listing of the completed volumes.

Further Information

★ The ''Neue Bach-Ausgabe'' page at the website of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen (in German).