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Berea, Ohio, Baldwin-Wallace College, Riemenschneider-Bach Institute, Emilie and Karl Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library

US-BER M2.1 M4 (Kenney 542), Faszikel 3
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in A major, BWV 864

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in A minor, BWV 865

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in B-flat minor, BWV 867

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in B major, BWV 868

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The Well-Tempered Clavier, 1st Part, prelude and fugue in B minor, BWV 869

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Catalogue raisonné:

BWV / Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis

BWV 864, 865, 866, 867, 868, 869

Link to works:

BWV 864.2; BWV 865.2; BWV 866.2; BWV 867.2; BWV 868.2; BWV 869.2

Scribe:

unknown scribe

Scribe (in detail):

unbekannter Schreiber (vgl. Verschollen BWV 826 (3), H. N. Gerber)

Date (exact):

um 1730 und später (nicht mehr in Leipzig)

Source Type:

Score, collective manuscript

Extent, Dimensions (cm):

12 leaves, 34 x 20 cm (unbeschnitten)

Period of origin:

first half of the 18th century (ca. 1720–1739)

Provenance:

H. N. Gerber – E. L. Gerber – J. A. André, Offenbach – F. W. Rühl, Frankfurt/M. – E. Prieger (1876) – Auktionshaus M. Lempertz, Köln (1924) – ? – M. Pinette, Brüssel – A. Riemenschneider (1936) – Berea, OH, Baldwin-Wallace College, Riemenschneider-Bach Institute, Emilie and Karl Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library (1950)

Description of watermark:

a) kursives A (zwischen Stegen); b) Kursivmonogramm JMS (zwischen Stegen) (Papiermühle Arnstadt)

Master copy:

Stadium A1 des WK I (verschollene Zwischenquellen zum Autograph D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 417), s. KB V/6.1, S. 147ff.

Comments:

Ursprünglich gehörte zu dieser Abschrift auch noch BWV 826;
864: sehr fehlerhafte Abschrift

Description in complete edition, Critical report:: V/6.1, S. 51f.
Literature:: Dürr BJ 1978; Bach QJ, Vol. I, Nr. 1, Winter 1970, S. 17; Kenney, Catalog of the E. and K. Riemenschneider Memorial Bach Library, S. 52f., Nr. 542