Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Facsimile of the autograph score held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Facsimile of the autograph score held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv
- Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir and Orchestra
- Edition Sheet Music (Facsimile)
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Series Documenta musicologica
- Editor Christoph Wolff
- Order no. BVK2448
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Description:
The Christmas Oratorio, with its six parts, has become dear to the hearts of countless music lovers all over the world. What sounds today as if it could never have been otherwise, in reality dates back in part to earlier Bach pieces that he retexted and adapted for the new purpose. The autograph ‘betrays' Bach's working methods in the very first chorus: first he underlaid the words of a version from the birthday cantata Tönet ihr Pauken only to cross them out and replace them with the famous Jauchzet, frohlocket.
Other passages in the autograph likewise reveal traces of self-borrowing. Some corrections allow the reader to look over the composer's shoulder, as it were, and watch him transforming an aria step by step into its present form or struggling to find a definitive version for a short recitative. In contrast, other pages are written out in an immaculate fair hand.
This facsimile edition presents the autograph score of the Christmas Oratorio for the first time in a high quality four-colour reproduction.
Bach specialist Christoph Wolff has provided an Introduction on the work's genesis and the features of the manuscript. The subsequent history of the autograph is described by Martina Rebmann of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Other passages in the autograph likewise reveal traces of self-borrowing. Some corrections allow the reader to look over the composer's shoulder, as it were, and watch him transforming an aria step by step into its present form or struggling to find a definitive version for a short recitative. In contrast, other pages are written out in an immaculate fair hand.
This facsimile edition presents the autograph score of the Christmas Oratorio for the first time in a high quality four-colour reproduction.
Bach specialist Christoph Wolff has provided an Introduction on the work's genesis and the features of the manuscript. The subsequent history of the autograph is described by Martina Rebmann of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
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