CPEB:CW Newsletter, Issue 18, December 2023

We are pleased to announce three new publications!

VIII/5: Historical Catalogues

Edited by Peter Wollny

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In this volume the contents of C.P.E. Bach’s extensive music library have been reconstructed, with the works identified and the current location of original manuscripts given (if known). VIII/5 includes C.P.E. Bach’s estate catalogue, the “Nachlaß-Verzeichnis” of 1790, which lists all the composer’s works (with incipits for his unpublished instrumental music), the music Bach inherited from his father (the “Alt-Bachisches Archiv”), music of his contemporaries, and his extensive portrait collection (published in CPEB:CW, VIII/4). Volume VIII/5 also contains the two auction catalogues published after Bach’s death: the “Bachisches Auction” of 1789 and the “Auktionskatalog” of 1805. Appendices include C.P.E. Bach’s work list published in his Autobiography; the “Clavierwerke-Verzeichnis” (1772); authorized editions by Bach; and music from Bach’s library not listed in other catalogues. This is a major piece of scholarship and will be a model for future research on eighteenth-century music.

VIII/6: Manuscript Sources and Scribes

Edited by Mark W. Knoll

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Volume VIII/6 includes an index to the manuscript sources of C.P.E. Bach’s music that were identified during the editorial work for the project, as well as an index to the principal scribes who produced them. These two indices are intended to give the user a sense of the richness and complexity of the source situation surrounding one of the most popular composers of the second half of the eighteenth century, and to provide a window into the private and public dissemination of his music at the time. The index of scribes builds on the work of Paul Kast, Yoshitake Kobayashi, and others who previously catalogued scribes working for the Bach family.

VIII/7: Indices

Edited by Kevin Leong

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Volume VIII/7 completes CPEB:CW by providing indices to the instrumental music, vocal music, and songs; concordances of the three work catalogues (Wq, H, and BR-CPEB); lists of facsimiles supplements, plates, and figures in each volume; an overview of the edition (including contents of each volume, the contributing editors, Editorial Board, and editorial staff); and the final version of the Editorial Guidelines.



CPEB:CW Translations Completed

English translations of all the vocal works in Series IV, V, and VI are now available to download from the Contents page of each volume. These have been excellently prepared, mostly by Pamela Dellal and Ruth B. Libbey. If you use these in programs or recordings, we ask that you give appropriate credit to the translators.

New Recording of C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat

A recording of C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat and other choral works, conducted by Michael Alexander Willens, is now available at a reduced price from the Kölner Akademie website. Use discount code CPEB at check out.

New Book on J.C. Bach Operas

The Packard Humanities Institute has published The Operas of Johann Christian Bach: An Introduction, edited by Jason B. Grant. This volume contains essays by leading scholars from the USA, Germany, Italy, and the UK on J.C. Bach’s eleven full-length operas. Beginning with a historical overview of J.C. Bach’s career as an opera composer, the individual essays are then organized chronologically by opera: Artaserse, written for Turin (1761); the two operas for Naples, Catone in Utica (1761) and Alessandro nell’Indie (1762); then Orione, ossia Diana vendicata and Zanaida (both 1763), Adriano in Siria (1765), and Carattaco (1767), all four of which were written for London over three seasons; Temistocle (1772) and Lucio Silla (1775) for Mannheim; one more opera for London, La clemenza di Scipione (1778); and finally J.C. Bach’s sole French opera, Amadis de Gaule (1779), written for Paris. The essays place J.C. Bach’s operas in the context of the poets, singers, and other composers whom he collaborated with and competed against.

The contents of this volume are as follows:

Johann Christian Bach: A Life in Opera, by John A. Rice

Artaserse, by Margaret R. Butler

Catone in Utica and Alessandro nell’Indie, by Lucio Tufano

Orione, ossia Diana vendicata and Zanaida, by Michael Burden

Adriano in Siria, by John A. Rice

Carattaco, by Stephen Roe

Temistocle and Lucio Silla, by Paul Corneilson

La clemenza di Scipione, by Karl Böhmer

Amadis de Gaule, by Beverly Wilcox

Additional information, including how to order, will be available soon at jcbach.org.



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