The works, one of which is dated 1700 when Bach was only 15 and the other thought to be even older, are copies of other composers' choral pieces, arranged for organ by Bach. 21.Įarly Bach manuscripts reveal teenage talentīerlin (Reuters) - Previously unknown manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach, recently discovered in Germany, prove that the prolific German composer was a virtuoso even as a teenager, researchers said on Thursday. 1 and at the Bach Archiv in Leipzig from Sept. The manuscripts will be exhibited at the library from Sept. Schubart succeeded Bach as organist at the court of Weimar in 1717, and the newly discovered documents were passed to the library as part of Schubart's estate, the foundation said.īoth the manuscripts and the aria found last year were unearthed by researchers from the Bach Archiv foundation in Leipzig, who have been combing German archives for information about the composer since 2002. It said the find also made clear that Bach went to Lüneburg in order to learn more about the influential North German organ school in Hamburg and Lübeck. "Technically highly demanding, these organ works document the extraordinary virtuoso skills of the young Bach as well as his efforts to master the most ambitious and complex pieces of the entire organ repertoire," the foundation said. The manuscripts were found together with two previously unknown fantasias by Johann Pachelbel, copied by Bach's student Johann Martin Schubart. He was a 15-year-old schoolboy when he copied the two chorale fantasias - " Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein" by Buxtehude and " An Wasserfluessen Babylon" by Reincken.īach attached a note to the Reincken copy that confirmed he was studying at the time with the organist Georg Böhm in the north German town of Lüneburg, the foundation said. The foundation said the discovery provided vital clues about Bach's early development. While some 50,000 books were lost, the Bach scripts survived because they had been stored in the building's vault. The library, housed in a 16th-century palace, was badly damaged by a fire in September 2004. Researchers found the documents in the archives of the Duchess Anna Amalia library in Weimar, where a previously unknown aria by Bach was discovered last year. The two manuscripts contain copies that Bach made of organ music composed by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reincken, and date from around 1700, said Hellmut Seemann, president of the Foundation of Weimar Classics. Weimar, Germany German researchers said Thursday they have discovered the oldest known handwritten manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach. Towe, who has lectured for the American Bach Society and is involved in noted Baltimore filmmaker Mike Lawrence's Bach Project, a documentary currently in production, has traced much of his prized Bach manuscript's history.German researchers find earliest Bach manuscripts The two 60-year-old men, who have never met and have only communicated via the Internet, are still exchanging theories on why part of this score was ever extracted and presented by Neukomm to Vincent, an obscure figure who studied piano, d'Anchald discovered, with a friend of Chopin's. Towe, who has compared the photo copies with the rest of his volume, is equally sure. "Now I can affirm that the Melun manuscript contains the missing pages three and four," he says. 22, d'Anchald traveled to the museum for a first-hand look. He obtained from the museum's curator photos of the music sheet and e-mailed them to Towe. That curiosity led to a Google search yielding "a very short piece of information - two lines - mentioning that in a small museum in a city south of Paris called Melun there was a sheet of music given by Neukomm to a certain Auguste Vincent," d'Anchald says, "and that it was probably a Bach autograph." Perusing Neukomm's will, "I noticed that there were a few music manuscripts in the inventory, so I wondered where they could be," d'Anchald says.
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