• Canon for four voices / Canon à 4 Voci perpetuus
 BWV 1073 GND

Canons, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue
Genre
  • Canon
Scoring
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    Date of origin, Work history
    • 2 August 1713

    • Bach himself entered the canon in riddle form in the "Stammbuch" of the notary and Weimar "Stadtschreiber" Johann Christoph Gebhard (see Maul 2011); Gebhard also played as a musical adjunct in the court orchestra there before Bach's appointment in Weimar.
    Comment
    • Autograph family register entry by J. S. Bach in riddle notation and signature (see original source): <i> Canon â 4. Voc: perpetuus </i> | [canon in riddle form] | <i>Weimar d. 2. Aug. 1713. [right:] Dieses wenige wolte dem Herrn | Besitzer zu geneigtem An- | gedencken hier einzeichnen | Joh: Sebast. Bach. | Fürstl. Sächs. HoffOrg. ./. Cammer-Musicus. </i> (see Dok. I Nr. 147). The autograph single leaf was separated out of the family register (D-WZrs: Stb 456) and sold separately.
    Original sources
    US-CAh bMS Eng 870 (35b) [Score]
    Additional sources
    B-Bc 15140 MSM [Score]
    D-LEb Go. S. 80, Faszikel 2 [Score]
    Edition
    NBA VIII/1, S. 3 (Christoph Wolff, 1974) – Critical report (1976), S. 15
    Literature
    • Michael Maul, <i>Ein Weimarer Stammbuch und Bachs Kanon BWV 1073</i>, in: Übertönte Geschichten. Musikkultur in Weimar, hrsg. von Hellmut Theodor Seemann u. Thorsten Valk, Göttingen 2011, S. 221–233

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    2025-05-14 02:18:01
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