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Sources

The Sources module is the oldest part of the Bach digital portal. It is based on the metadata collection "Göttinger Bach-Katalog" (1999-2008), which at the end of the "Neue Bach-Ausgabe" was a collection of research data available online for all sources containing works by J. S. Bach. As a rule, sources are available that were created up to around the middle of the 19th century and copies of the original prints (prints that were created during the composer's lifetime and with his knowledge).

Over the years, this collection has been greatly expanded, supplemented by high-resolution source scans and enriched with research data on the composing Bach sons and other members of the Bach family. This process of continuous expansion and updating is far from complete.

The data records for the individual sources contain the following information, as far as it is fully known:

  • Owner of the source (search also possible)
  • Library shelfmark (with RISM siglum), (also searchable)
  • Composer (also searchable) and works (catalog raisonné numbers) that the source contains with a link to the corresponding work record (also searchable)
  • Writer of the source, with links to the person module, with further examples and biographical information (search also possible)
  • Type of source (source type 1: single manuscript, composite manuscript, manuscript in bundle, print etc.; source type 2: parts, score, piano reduction, libretto and volume/measure), (search also possible)
  • Source relationship: direct relationship to another source (search also possible)
  • Provenance/previous owner of the source (search also possible)
  • Link/information on the probable template for the source
  • Date of origin of the source: both approximate period (search also possible) and specific dating, e.g. if a performance date and place of origin are known
  • Watermark in the paper (WZ); description, and (if known) details of paper mill/maker, year (search also possible), illustrations see Watermark module (under construction)
  • Secondary literature on the source (identification of content, provenance, scribe, dating/facsimile)
  • Description/mention in the volume of a scholarly-critical complete edition (NBA; CPEB:CW etc.)
  • Source reproductions: References in the library of the Bach Archive Leipzig
  • Bach digital ID (as a so-called persistent ID) and static URL

Detailed search for sources

There are very specific search options here, some of which require prior knowledge of specialized areas of Bach research. A combination of all fields is possible. This allows very precise queries to be made to the database for research purposes, and this is also the strength of Bach digital, as no other database offers these possibilities for research data on Bach sources.

Please note: the new BWV3 numbers (2022) have not yet been incorporated into the Sources module. These extensive adjustments are still pending. In the Works module, the BWV3 numbers have already been added for the most part.

Pull-down menus are available for a number of fields, i.e. you have a preset selection option:

1. Library shelfmark

Please enter the shelfmark or part of the shelfmark of the source(s) of a manuscript or original print you are looking for with the following values:

  • international country abbreviation (RISM-Sigel)
  • standardized abbreviations for libraries (according to RISM)
  • letters and/or numbers contained in the shelfmark

Example: Are you looking for a specific source or group of sources?

Please enter the shelfmark or a concise part of the shelfmark, e.g. US-Wc (for sources from the Library of Congress in Washington/DC), P 16 (for D-B Mus. ms. Bach P 16) or Go. S. 19 (for D-LEb Go. S. 19)

Attention: Upper and lower case letters, commas, hyphens and spaces are not taken into account in the search.

2. Owner

You can search for a source owner via a pull-down menu: All libraries that own Bach sources are first sorted here alphabetically by country; within countries then by city.

The search also works for previous owners if there has been a change of ownership in the recent past, such as in this example: the autograph of BWV 998 was owned by a Japanese university library (J-Tuu) until 2016 and is now in private ownership (unknown to us) following the auction at Christie's). This autograph can be found here in the owner search via J-Tuu as well as via private ownership.

3. Composer

You can also search for the composer using the pull-down menu.

However, not all works by "foreign composers" that have survived together with Bach works in the sources are made searchable via this classification, but mainly composers whose works were previously attributed to J. S. Bach or a member of the Bach family or works that have survived with original sources by J. S. Bach (references not yet fully incorporated). The list of hits when I search for Buxtehude here is therefore smaller than when I search for Buxtehude in the "full text search".

4. List of works

From the pull-down menu, select the composer's catalog of works with which you want to search: BWV, BR-CPEB, BR-WFB, Fk, Warb etc.

Please note: The new numbers of the Bach Works Catalogue (BWV3) published in 2022 have not yet been fully incorporated into the Sources module.

5. Catalog of works no.

In this field, enter the number of the work according to a corresponding catalog of works.

Example: If you are looking for all sources for BWV 232 (Mass in B minor), enter at least 232. If you enter BWV 232 or BWV 232.4, you will get more exact results.

Please note: If you are looking for sources for works which have been attributed to J. S. Bach in isolated cases but which are not listed in one of the Bach works directories (misattributions), try searching via the "Catalogue of works" pull-down menu, where you will also find the corresponding directories (Emans, Kast, deest).

6. Type of relation

Two sources can have a relationship to each other, which is digitally mapped in Bach by linking the corresponding source records directly to each other.

Example: is a copy of - sources are shown for which a direct dependency relationship can be proven, i.e. sources that were copied from the linked source. The direct "original" is linked in the data record with the RISM siglum and the shelfmark. (References not yet fully incorporated)

7. Source type 1

This is about the type of source: In the category "Source type 1", a distinction is made between different forms of manuscript storage.

You can also select the desired category from the pull-down menu:

  • Print, first print or original print (i.e. a special print that was created with the composer's knowledge or was authorized or prepared by him)
  • Single manuscript (source contains a single work)
  • Single manuscript in convolute (source contains a single work and was subsequently merged with other sources)
  • Convolute (subsequent compilation of sources)
  • Composite manuscript (source was created with several works from the outset)
  • Composite manuscript in convolute (composite manuscript that was subsequently merged with other sources)

8. Source type 2

Here manuscripts and prints are differentiated according to content. You can also select the desired category from the pull-down menu:

  • Sketch/Draft
  • Score
  • Piano reduction (piano arrangement)
  • Voice/parts (performance material for musicians)
  • Score and parts (handed down together)
  • Libretto (printed text or handwritten text source for a vocal work)
  • Particell (reduction of a score)
  • Fragment

9. Period of origin

If you only want to search for sources that were written in a specific period, e.g. early 18th century (approx. 1700-1719), please select this from the pull-down menu.

Please note: You cannot use this field to find precisely dated sources. If you are looking for a year of origin, the "full-text search" is more likely to lead you to your goal (example: enter the year 1726).

10. Copyist

Select a name or an anonymous copyist with a siglum from the pull-down menu. As many common designations as possible are displayed.

Short titles of secondary literature (Kast, Blechschmidt, Kobayashi Chr, GraunWV etc.), which are used in the copyist nomenclatures, are listed in the "Bibliography". More detailed information on the copyists can be found in the "Persons module". A direct link is provided here in each case.

Only recently have scribes identified by name (especially original copyists of J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach) also been listed in the scribe classification with their "Anon" siglum.

Example: Kittler/Küttler, Johann Samuel (1715-1781) = Anon Vf. The linked Persons module shows, among other things, where the identification was published (in this case: P. Wollny, BJ 2017) and which other "Anon" sigla also existed for this scribe.

11. (Partly) Autograph

Select in the pull-down menu (yes or no) whether you are looking for a source that was written in whole or in part by the composer himself.

12. With digital copy – watermark link – original source/edition-relevant source

You can place a check mark here if you want to make a specific selection (several check marks are also possible).

In Bach digital, edition-relevant sources are those sources which - if no original source is available - at least indicate which copy(s) can be regarded as the most important secondary source(s).

Virtual sources are records in which several parts of a manuscript, which are now kept in different places, are brought together to form a virtual (i.e. original) unit. The relevant example of this is the original set of parts of BWV 130 , the individual parts of which are in different locations and some of which have been lost. All these individual parts have their own data set; in the virtual source, these data sets are brought together as they probably were in 1750 when J. S. Bach died.

Link Watermarks can be used to access sources for which an image of the watermark is available as a scan in the "Watermark module".

13. Watermark description

In this field, please enter a characteristic feature of the watermark of the source you are looking for, e.g. wild man, tree branch. For Bach autographs and Bach's original part sets, you can also enter the white numbers, if known. (Catalog of watermarks in Bach's original manuscripts by Wisso Weiß with the musicological assistance of Yoshitake Kobayashi, 2 volumes, Kassel and Leipzig 1985 = NBA IX/1)

14. Provenance/Owner

If you want to search for sources that were or are in the possession of certain institutions, libraries or persons, please enter the corresponding name here. In this way you can find out, for example, that a copy of cantata BWV 119 was at times in the possession of F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. possession of F. Mendelssohn Bartholdys .

Please note: As a rule, the first name is not written out in full. You can also use the "Full text search" to search for names or ownership sequences.

16. Bach digital-ID

The Bach digital ID is a unique identification number which is given at the end of each data record and which you can use to cite a data record in publications. You can also search for this ID number.

Digitized sources

If digitization has taken place and we have received high-resolution digital copies from a library, this is indicated in the hit list for your search by the icon with the "eye" (icon on the right-hand side of the page).

If there is a "crossed-out eye" icon, we will redirect you to scans on an external site. Here we do not (yet) have direct access to images from the owning institution that we can load into the database. We have divided each digitized source into "stacks", which usually comprise several sheets, each of which can be navigated through. In the case of scores, the individual source is divided into movements (e.g. 1st Sinfonia, 2nd Recitativo, 3rd Aria etc.).

Each image is labeled as precisely as possible for clear identification and, in the case of J. S. Bach's autographs, also indicates the corresponding bar range. In the case of digitized part sets, each part forms its own "stack" of sheets (e.g. soprano, tenor, trombone 1 etc.). Here the labeling indicates the respective writer(s) of the part.

The scans can be viewed via several different viewers. In addition to the default viewer, there are several others (see the icons below the digital copy).

For the original sources, "Z" (= "Zoomify") is usually also available, with which you can enlarge individual passages of a page to a particularly large extent; however, no download is possible here.

"IIIF" stands for "International Image Interoperability Framework" and means that a digitized image can also be used in many other viewers that are not created in Bach digital

Downloading source scans

If you want to continue working with individual digitized material and download sources, this is possible in batches via "PDF" download. The "PDF" icon is located below the image.

You can download individual pages as jpg files both under the default "Iview" and via the "DFG Viewer" (click with the right mouse button, then select "Save graphic"/"Save as" or similar)

Erwerb neuer Digitalisate (durch Spenden)

Nicht zu jeder Quelle stehen Scans/Digitalisate zur Verfügung.

In der Regel kaufen wir Digitalisate oder es gelingt uns durch Drittmittel eine Projektförderung für eine Digitalisierung zu bekommen. Sie können uns durch eine Spende unterstützen, mit der der Erwerb weiterer Scans bei verschiedenen Bibliotheken ermöglicht wird.

Works

The works module was successively developed from 1999 to 2008 in an earlier project (Göttinger Bach-Katalog) as a database with basic data on J. S. Bach's authentic works, works attributed to him, and individual work versions (see "Neue Bach-Ausgabe"). Since then, this database has been further developed: initially only for J. S. Bach, but for a number of years now also as an online works catalog for all of the composing members of the Bach family (as well as their respective personal music libraries). The further development of this module and its content is a long-term task and will take several more years.

The works module is based mainly on printed works catalogs:

Works Catalogs for J. S. Bach

For J. S. Bach, this includes all editions of the "BWV" (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis) from the first edition of 1950 (Wolfgang Schmieder) to the new edition of 2022 (BWV3 by Christine Blanken, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny). Works can therefore be found with all the usual numberings, including BWV Anh., BWV App, or BWV Suppl, as well as multiple versioning systems (e.g., BWV 245a and BWV 245.5), etc. The "BC" numbers from the vocal works index "Bach Compendium" (Hans-Joachim Schulze, Christoph Wolff) have also been included.

If there are differences, the corresponding edition of the BWV is indicated by a superscript number: BWV1 (1950), BWV2 (1990), BWV2a (1998), BWV3 (2022).

In cases of works for which J. S. Bach is not (or no longer) identified as the composer (misattribution) or is probably not the composer (incertum), further catalogs or bibliographical references have been cited (Emans, Kast, NBA volumes).

The exact bibliographical details for these editions can be found on the Bibliography page (homepage above).

Works Catalogs for the Bach family

For Bach’s sons, work data from the following standard catalogs and lists of works have been incorporated:

  • W. F. Bach: Fk (Martin Falck), BR-WFB (Peter Wollny)
  • C. P. E. Bach: Wq (Alfred Wotquenne), H (Eugene Helm), BR-CPEB (Wolfram Enßlin - vocal works in print, instrumental works in preparation)
  • J. C. F. Bach: Wf (Hanssdieter Wohlfarth), BR-JCFB (Ulrich Leisinger)
  • J. C. Bach: Ty (Charles Sanford Terry), Warb (Ernest Warburton)

(The works catalogs for C. P. E. Bach and J. C. Bach are not yet fully available online).

Other composers of the Bach family:

  • J. L. Bach: JLB (J. S. Bach-Werke/BG 41)
  • J. E. Bach: BR-JEB (K. Rettinghaus)
  • W. F. E. Bach: BR-WFEB (M. Strobel)

The "Alt-Bachisches Archiv" and works from "J. S. Bachs Notenbibliothek" can be researched in various ways under:

  • ABA (Max Schneider), BNB (Kirsten Beißwenger), BWV³ Suppl 2 (Blanken, Wolff, Wollny) as well as other composers from J. S. Bach's music library under the corresponding works catalogs (BuxWV, HWV, etc.).

The data records for individual works contain the following information (for works of the Bach family the content is still under construction; for works by J. S. Bach, the information largely corresponds to BWV3 of 2022), and will be continuously updated according to new research:

  • Instrumentation vocal/instrumental (searching available)
  • History of the work (including version history) with date of composition and confirmed dates of first performance and re-performances (during the composer's lifetime)
  • Librettist (free texts), poet/date of composition (chorale texts), and first printing for chorale texts (searching available)
  • Text (libretto) for vocal works, already available for all works by J. S. Bach
  • Designated purpose of vocal works, e.g. 3rd Sunday after Trinity, 2nd Day of Easter, change of city council, etc. (searching available, also links to all works with the same designation)
  • Links to biblical texts: those used in vocal works, and those used for the Sunday and feast-day readings from the church services in Bach’s day.
  • Short introduction to the work and links to videos with freely available recordings (currently only for vocal works by J. S. Bach)
  • Information on "work relationships": links to/from the original composition, any parody relationship, earlier or later versions, cycle of works, or cantata yearly cycle (searching available)
  • Scholarly-critical edition of the work (complete editions: J. S. Bach, "Neue Bach-Ausgabe", C. P. E. Bach. "The Complete Works,” etc.)
  • Relevant secondary literature, especially about the genesis of the work (under the menu item "Bibliography" you will find the literature used in the database: secondary literature, property and auction catalogs, periodicals, etc., including the short titles used for them)
  • List of sources that contain the work with links to the corresponding source data record (with a distinction made between "original sources" and "additional sources")

The detailed search, i.e., a search mask with many search fields, is available for complex searches in the works module (e.g., by instrumentation, work genre, purpose, text author, date of composition, or even individual words or word sequences in the vocal text).

1. Composer

Select the name of the composer whose works you wish to research from the pull-down menu.

2. Works Catalog (Catalogue raisonné)

From the pull-down menu, select the works catalog in which you wish to search. If you leave the field empty, you will receive a list of results with all works that have the same number in different catalogs.

Example: If you enter "951" in the "Number in the Catalogue raisonné" field and do not select anything from the catalogue raisonné pull-down menu, you will receive three hits:

  • C. P. E: Bach, Choral, Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn
  • BWV 951 (Johann Sebastian Bach, Fugue in b on a theme by Tommaso Albinoni
  • BWV 951.1; BWV 951a (J. S. Bach, Fugue in b on a theme by Tommaso Albinoni [first version])

3. Number in the Catalogue raisonné

Enter the number of the work in this field, corresponding to a catalogue raisonné. If you do not have a catalogue raisonné number, leave the field empty. You will then be taken to the data records of all works by the composer selected in the pull-down menu of field 1 ("Composer").

Example: BWV 951 or BR-CPEB A (if you are looking for a group of works, in this case works for keyboard instrument solo by C. P. E. Bach).

4. Uniform title / Text incipit

Enter the title (or part of the title) of the work you are looking for.

5. Type of relation

Two works can be related to each other, which is represented in Bach digital by directly linking the corresponding work data records.

Example: “is part of” shows works that belong to a compositional unit and are linked to a parent data record. These can also be works that form a collection with a common parent title.

Example: Concerto No. 1 in F (BWV 1046) is part of "Six Concerts avec plusierus instruments/Brandenburgische Konzerte" (BWV 1046–1051)

6. Vocal Text

Here you can enter specific keywords or word sequences. All texts of vocal works will then be searched for the desired keyword(s). Please place word sequences in single quotation marks (e.g., ‘starker König’), as otherwise the system will search for “starker” and “König” individually.

7. Genre

From the pull-down menu, select the genre to which the work you are looking for belongs, or select the genre for which you want to search in general, e.g., Canon or Magnificat. In the latter case, leave the other search fields empty.

8. Designated Purpose

In this field, enter the liturgical/secular purpose of the vocal work by a composer of the Bach family for which you are searching. Select the appropriate designation for the Sundays and feast days of the church year and for other compositional occasions from the pull-down menu.

9. Systematic Overview (BWV³)

Use this field if you want to search for specific groups of works by J. S. Bach according to the BWV³ system (e.g., "motets", "works for organ", "orchestral works" etc.)

10. Date of origin

If you want to search for works that were composed in a specific year or during a specific phase of J. S. Bach's life (e.g. the years in Weimar), you can limit your search accordingly using the pull-down menu.

Example: If you select the category “1717–1723 (Köthen") from the pull-down menu and press ENTER, you will receive a hit list with works whose date of composition falls within this creative period of Bach’s life.

11. Scoring

From the pull-down menu, select the instruments and/or vocal parts that should be included in the instrumentation of the work(s) you are looking for. You can combine up to three entries here. If you are looking for a work with 3 trumpets, 2 transverse flutes, and a solo alto, select "Tromba 3,” "Flauto traverso 2,” and "A solo 1.”

12. Librettist/Chorale Librettist

In this field you can use the pull-down menu to enter the name of an author who has written chorale texts or free texts for vocal works by J. S. Bach or other composers of the Bach family.

13. Text / Chorale Text Author / Chorale Text

Please enter the name of the author (please only enter the surname, as the first name is often entered in abbreviated form only) of the choral text or the title/text incipit of the chorale you wish to research.

14. Full Text Search

Please enter the words or part of a word here to be searched in all database fields. All terms entered are automatically linked by “and." Please place groups of words in single quotation marks.

Example: If you enter the word "Michaelis" (St. Michael) in the search field "Full text search" and press ENTER, all fields will be searched for it and combined terms such as "Michaelis-Fest", "Michaelis-Musik", "Michaelis-Kirche" will also be found.

15. Bach digital-ID

The Bach digital ID is a unique identification number which is given at the end of each data record and which you can use to cite a data record in publications. You can also search for this ID number.

Wasserzeichen (Modul im Aufbau)

Die Dokumentation von Wasserzeichen (WZ) ist vor allem für die Handschriften mit Musik J. S. Bachs sowie aus seiner Notenbibliothek seit langem ein Forschungsfeld. Seit Erscheinung des Katalogs der Wasserzeichen (W. Weiß/Y. Kobayashi) sind die Originalhandschriften gut dokumentiert, meist durch manuell angefertigte Durchlicht-Pausen.

Mittlerweile sind die Möglichkeiten, ein Wasserzeichen in einer beschriebenen Handschrift sichtbar zu machen, sehr gut: neben der Beta-Radiographie spielen die Thermographie und die infrarotgestützte Photographie eine Rolle. Während der DFG-Projektphase 2017–2021 wurden die Wasserzeichen der Originalquellen der Bach-Söhne in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin durch eine Thermographie-Kamera erfasst und hier in Bach digital eingearbeitet. Dazu gehört, dass auch die Papiermacher über das verlinkte Personen-Modul möglichst eindeutig bestimmt und mit Normdaten der GND identifiziert werden können.

Achtung: Von den in den Bach digital-Quellen genannten Wasserzeichen ist erst ein sehr geringer Prozentsatz auch im Wasserzeichen-Modul vorhanden, eine Recherche nach Wasserzeichen-Motiven in Bach digital kann nur erfolgreich sein, wenn sowohl im Quellen-Modul als auch im WZ-Modul gesucht wird.

Das in diesem Rahmen entwickelte Wasserzeichen-Modul greift in seiner Konzeption auf das Klassifizierungsmodell der Papierhistorischen Sammlungen an der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek zurück.

1. Klassifikation (2 Eingabefelder mit Klassifikation)

Bitte wählen Sie aus dem Pulldown-Menü den Typ des Wasserzeichens, bzw. das charakteristische Element des Wasserzeichens (z. B. Einhorn, Lilie, Monogramm), das Sie suchen, aus. Sie können auch nach einer Kombination von zwei charakteristischen Elementen (z. B. Wilder Mann + Buchstabe) suchen, wenn Sie aus beiden Pulldown-Menüs die entsprechende Auswahl treffen.

2. Region

Wasserzeichen geben Hinweise auf die Entstehungsregion der Papiere (z. B. Böhmen), bzw. auf die in einer bestimmten Region verortbaren Papiermühlen, in denen diese Papiere hergestellt wurden. Wenn sie die Region kennen, der ein Wasserzeichen zugeordnet wird, können Sie diese aus dem Pulldown-Menü auswählen und auf diese Weise ihre Suche einschränken.

3. Papier

In dem Pulldown-Menü dieses Feldes können Sie auswählen, ob sie nach Wasserzeichen in Einzelseiten oder in Bögen suchen wollen.

4. Bibliothekssignatur

Geben Sie hier, sofern bekannt, die Bibliothekssignatur der Handschrift ein, deren Wasserzeichen Sie recherchieren wollen.

5. Volltextsuche

Bitte geben Sie hier einen Teil eines Wortes oder eine Wortgruppe ein, der/die in allen Feldern gesucht werden soll. Alle eingegebenen Begriffe werden automatisch durch „und“ verknüpft. Wortgruppen setzen Sie bitte in einfache Anführungszeichen, z.B. ‚gekrönter Doppeladler‘.

Achtung: Mit der Volltextsuche lassen sich Begriffe aus allen Feldern der Metadaten finden. Wenn man sie verwendet, sieht man, in welche Feldern welche Informationen zu finden sind.

Wenn man gar kein Feld füllt, sondern nur auf „Suchen“ klickt, wir eine Liste aller Datensätze angezeigt.

6. Bild vorhanden

Wenn Sie ausschließlich nach Wasserzeichen-Datensätzen möchten, die auch eine Abbildung des gesuchten Wasserzeichens enthalten, setzen Sie bitte hier ein Häkchen.

7. Bach digital-ID

The Bach digital ID is a unique identification number which is given at the end of each data record and which you can use to cite a data record in publications. You can also search for this ID number.

Personen und Körperschaften

Hier wurden sämtliche Personen erfasst, die in der Forschungsliteratur zu den Werken und den Dokumenten J. S. Bachs und der Bach-Familie namhaft gemacht werden konnten. Ein Personendatensatz ist oft mit internen Links zu den anderen drei Modulen von Bach digital angereichert und zeigt damit Beziehungen/Rollen einer Person im Kontext von Quellen, Werken oder Wasserzeichen an (noch nicht: Provenienz einer Quelle).

Die Personendaten zeigen in ihrer derzeitigen Ausbaustufe lediglich einige Grunddaten an; geben damit neben den Lebensdaten nur einen ungefähren Hinweis auf die Tätigkeiten, auf Verbindungen zu J. S. Bach oder zur Bach-Familie, die Arbeit als Kopist, Textdichterin, als Papiermacher oder als Sängerin. In einer weiteren Ausbaustufe sollen diese Daten weiter angereichert und mit den Dokumenten aus dem neuen „Forschungsportal BACH" (FPB) verknüpft werden.

Aufgabe des Personen-Moduls ist die eindeutige Identifizierung von Personen auf der Basis von Normdaten. In Fällen wo noch keine GND-Nummer zur Verfügung steht, führen eventuell „Beacon-Links“ zu weiteren Datenbanken

1. Name

Geben Sie in das erste Feld den Namen einer gesuchten Person ein. Bei der Eingabe erscheinen Auto-Suggestions, also automatische Vervollständigungen des Namens, bei dem jeweils auch dessen Varianten berücksichtigt werden.

2. Identifikationsnr. (GND)

Hier können Sie (sofern existent und bekannt) die GND-Identifikationsnummer der gesuchten Person eingeben und auf diese Weise nach dem entsprechenden Personen-Datensatz in Bach digital suchen.

3. Geschlecht

Bitte wählen sie aus dem Pulldown-Menü das Geschlecht der gesuchten Person aus.

Beruf

Wenn Sie nach einer bestimmten Gruppe von Personen suchen, die durch ihren Beruf definiert wird (Kopist, Kantor, Sänger, Papiermacher etc.) geben Sie hier bitte die entsprechende Bezeichnung ein. Wenn Sie nach einer weiblichen Person suchen, geben Sie bitte die weibliche Berufsbezeichnung (z. B. Kopistin) ein. Eine kombinierte Suche von männlicher Berufsbezeichnung (im „Beruf“-Feld und der Auswahl der Kategorie „weiblich“ im Feld „Geschlecht“ führt zu keinem Ergebnis.

Bibliographische Referenz/Literatur

Wenn Sie nach einer Person suchen, die in einer einschlägigen Publikationen der Bachforschung genannt wird, geben Sie hier bitte den Kurztitel dieser Publikation ein.

Beispiel: Einschlägige Publikationen der Bachforschung sind z.B. Die Bach-Dokumente (Bände I-V), abgekürzt mit Dok I, Dok II etc. Die in Bach digital verwendeten Kurztitel finden sie auf der Startseite unter dem Menüpunkt Bibliographie im Unterpunkt Sonstige Literatur.

Volltextsuche

Bitte geben Sie hier eine Wortgruppe oder einen Teil eines Wortes ein, die/der in allen Feldern gesucht werden soll. Alle eingegebenen Begriffe werden automatisch durch „und" verknüpft. Wortgruppen setzen Sie bitte in einfache Anführungszeichen.

Bild vorhanden

Wenn Sie nach Schriftproben von bestimmten Kopisten suchen, deren Namen Sie in das erste Suchfeld eingetragen haben, dann setzen Sie bitte hier das Häkchen. Wenn Sie nach keinem bestimmten Kopisten suchen, sondern sich eine Liste von Scans aller in der Datenbank erfassten Schriftproben anzeigen lassen wollen, lassen sie das „Namen“-Suchfeld leer.

Bach digital-ID

The Bach digital ID is a unique identification number which is given at the end of each data record and which you can use to cite a data record in publications. You can also search for this ID number.

BACH DIGITAL SMART

Anders als in der Vollversion des Werke- und Quellenmoduls ist in dem Auswahlmodul „Bach digital smart“ nur ein Teil der Datenbank-Informationen zu finden. Bereits die Suche ist einfacher zu überblicken, indem man nach nur fünf Kriterien aus dem Werke-Modul suchen kann: Komponist, Titel, Werkverzeichnis, Volltext, Bestimmung eines Werkes.

Ergänzt wird dieses Angebot mit hochauflösenden Scans der wichtigsten Quelle, in der uns das jeweilige Werk überliefert wurde. Das ist entweder das Autograph, eine weitere Originalquelle oder eine frühe Abschrift (oder alle drei Varianten). Diese Digitalisate sind direkt bei den Werkinformationen zu finden (Werke- und das Quellen-Modul wurden für diese Darstellung miteinander verbunden).

Kurze Werkeinführungen geben Auskunft zu einer Komposition (derzeit nur zu den Vokalwerken von J. S. Bach).

Frei verfügbare Videoeinspielungen sind ebenfalls verlinkt („All of Bach-Projekt“ der Nederlandse Bachvereniging/J. v. Veldhoven u.a., Amsterdam Baroque/T. Koopman, J. S. Bach-Stiftung St. Gallen/R. Lutz, Internationale Bach-Akademie Stuttgart/H.-C. Rademann, Stiftsbarock Stuttgart/K. Johannsen u. a. (derzeit nur zu den Vokalwerken von J. S. Bach).

Spenden

Die Umsetzung von „Bach digital smart“ ist mit freundlicher Unterstützung einzelner Spender ermöglicht worden.

Ein weiterer Ausbau (für alle Werke von J. S. Bach und in einem weiteren Stadium für alle Werke der Bach-Familie) ist in Planung. Sie können unsere Arbeit unterstützen, indem Sie für den zügigen technischen und inhaltlichen Ausbau des Werke-Moduls spenden .