D-WRgs, Weimar, Goete-Schiller-Archiv
Original publication of the 4th part of the "Clavier-Übung", BWV 988

1. Appearance
Shelfmark                              Hs. 3. Goethe Notensammlung Nr. 431c
Extent 18 leaves
Measurement, in cm 26-26,5 x 16,5
title page: 23,5 x 16,5
Paper/Watermark watermark hardly to identify
Safe-keeping/Quire/Foliation The source is stitched with thread and paged (from f. 2r ["1"] to f. 17v ["32."])
Dating
after 1741

2. Contents
Arrangement                         f.1r: title page
f. 1v: blank
f. 2r: "Aria"
f. 2v: "Variatio 1. a 1 Clav."
f. 3r: "Variatio 2. a 1 Clav."
f. 3v: "Variatio 3. Canone all Unisono. à 1 Clav.";"Variatio 4. à 1 Clav", mm. 1 - 10
f. 4r: mm. 11 - 32; "Variatio 5. / a 1 o vero 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 4v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 6. Canone alla Seconda a 1 Clav.", mm. 1 - 21
f. 5r: mm. 22 - 32; "Variatio 7. à 1. o vero 2 Clav."
f. 5v: "Variatio 8. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 28
f. 6r: mm. 29 - 32; "Variatio 9. /Canone alla Terza. a 1 Clav."; "Variatio 10. Fugetta. a 1 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 6v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 11. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 20
f. 7r: mm. 21 - 32; "Variatio 12. Canone alla Quarta.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 7v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 13. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 10a
f. 8r: mm. 10b - 32
f. 8v: "Variatio 14. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 26a
f. 9r: mm. 26b - 32; "Variatio 15. Canone alla Quinta. a 1 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 9v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 16. a 1 Clav. / Ouverture", mm. 1 - 13a
f. 10r: mm. 13b - 48
f. 10v: "Variatio 17. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 28
f. 11r: mm. 29 - 32; "Variatio 18. Canone alla Sexta. a 1 Clav."; "Variatio 19. a 1 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 11v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 20. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 17
f. 12r: mm. 18 - 32; "Variatio 21 / Canone alla Settima.", mm. 1 - 8
f. 12v: mm. 9 - 16; "Variatio 22. a 1 Clav."
f. 13r: "Variatio 23. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 25
f. 13v: mm. 26 - 32; "Variatio 24 / Canone all Ottava. a 1 Clav.", mm. 1 - 22
f. 14r: mm. 23 - 32; "Variatio 25. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 14v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 26", mm. 1 - 7
f. 15r: mm. 8 - 32
f. 15v: "Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. a 2 Clav."
f. 16r: "Variatio 28. a 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 16
f. 16v: mm. 17 - 32; "Variatio 29. a 1 o vero 2 Clav.", mm. 1 - 7a
f. 17r: mm. 7b - 28a
f. 17v: mm. 28b - 32; "Variatio 30. a 1 Clav. Quodlibet"
f. 18r: blank
f. 18v: blank
Title page "No. 16. // Clavier Ubung / bestehend / in einer / ARIA / mit verschiedenen Veraenderungen / vors Clavicimbal / mit 2 Manualen. / Denen Liebhabern zur Gemüths- / Ergetzung verfertiget von Johann Sebastian Bach / Königl. Pohl. u. Churfl. Saechsl. Hoff- / Compositeur, Capellmeister, u. Directore / Chori Musici in Leipzig. / Nürnberg in Verlegung / Balthasar Schmids."

3. Miscellaneous
Foreign/later entries                none
Condition of source good (partly rust stains, title and last page soiled)
Provenance C. F. Zelter? - J. W. von Goethe - Goethe-Nachlaß - Stiftung Graf Leo Henckel von Donnersmarck und F. Vulpius - Goethe Nationalmuseum (1885) - Weimar, Goethe-Schiller-Archiv
Literature Wisso Weiß: Zum Papier einiger Bach-Handschriften in der Goethe Notensammlung, in: Bachiana et alia Musicologica. Festschrift Alfred Dürr zum 65. Geburtstag, Kassel 1983, pp. 340ff.


07.05.07