Klaus Hofmann

So populär die Motetten Bachs sind, so problematisch ist ihre Überlieferung. Nur von 2 Motetten sind Autographe und von Bach benutzte Stimmen erhalten, bei allen anderen müssen wir uns mit mehr oder w...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio has been published as a scholarly edition for practical use as part of the Stuttgart Bach Editions. The edition is based on Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The...

Edition for practitioners based on the Urtext of the New Bach Edition with variant versions and additions. Playing score

Georg Philipp Telemann gave more consideration to amateur musicians than any of the other great composers of this day. One of the many works he wrote specifically for amateurs is the collection presen...

Es gilt als sicher, dass J. S. Bach aus einer Triosonate, die wohl in der Tonart B-dur stand, zwei Werke entwickelte: die bekannte Orgel-Triosonate Nr. 1 Es-dur BWV 525 und den langsamen Mittelsatz de...

Der Bach-Experte Klaus Hofmann sorgt für einen richtigen Repertoiregewinn: er greift aus gutem Grund auf J. S. Bachs Violinsonate A-dur BWV 1015 zurück und rekonstruiert mit Gespür deren Vorlage. In V...

GraunWV C:XV:79 für 2 Violinen und Basso continuo, herausgegeben mit einer Generalbass-Aussetzung von Klaus Hofmann. Stark romantisch berabeitet wurde das Trio bereits 1906 von Hugo Riemann bei Breitk...

This edition was arranged for today's music-mak-ing practice allowing the instrumental enlargement by adding various wind instruments to the simple string scoring.

Bach's E major concerto raises unresolved questions about interpretation to this day.

Klaus Hofmann's source studies resulted in a fully new publication with the various practical performance editions.

Herausgegeben nach der Darmstädter Endler-Abschrift von Klaus Hofmann. Die Sonate erschien 1968 erstmals und wurde vom Herausgeber anhand der Quellen erneut durchgesehen und die Generalbassaussetzung...

The present edition allows the cantata to be performed in the various scorings used by Bach. In the scoring indications for the solo parts for high voice, Bach's assignment in Leipzig is given first,...

Bach's Reformation cantata on what is probably Martin Luther's most famous hymn matured over many years. It began with a now lost Weimar cantata for Sunday Oculi 1716, which referred to the hymn with...

The Reformation cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80b, published by Carus-Verlag for the first time in a practical performing edition, remained unknown to Bach scholars until well into the 20t...

New edition of the New Year's cantata, previously only published from 19th century copies, based on a manuscript from 1762 which only became known in 1971; with a considerably different and improved t...

The cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" BWV 150 is one of Bach's earliest cantatas from his Mühlhausen period. For a long time, its authenticity was disputed, a fact which was not only due to the...

Bach's cantata BWV 151, whose wonderfully intimate opening aria is rightly considered one of Bach's "happiest inspirations" (Alfred Dürr), was composed for Christmas Day 1725. The flute and oboe d'amo...

Reconstruction of the original version (Klaus Hofmann); composition period unknown

The autograph contains no reference to the participation of instruments, and there is no doubt that a purely vocal performance would do full justice to the work. On the other hand, there is nothing to...

The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of Telemann's most frequently performed church music works. Among the manuscripts that transmit the cantata is an important testimony to the e...

Hosanna to the Son of David opens Telemann's cantata cycle "Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn" as a cantata for the 1st Advent. The year is based on poems by the Hamburg Jacobi chief p...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

Telemann's unusually small Kyrie Gloria Mass is a work from his Leipzig period (1701-1705). In seven movements, the young composer knows how to draw a rich palette of forms and affects from the voice...