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German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Thuringia in 1685. Born into a large musical family, he was the youngest child of string player Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elisabeth Lämmerhirt. His parents died when he was ten, and he was cared for by his eldest brother until he won a choral scholarship to the school at Michaelskirche, Lüneburg in 1700. This appears to have influenced his interest in church music and the organ. In August 1703 he was appointed as the organist for the Neue Kirche in Arnstadt, although his eccentricities gave his employers some cause for complaint. In June 1707 Bach moved to the Blasiuskirche in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, marrying his cousin, Maria Barbara, in October that same year. During this time he produced several church cantatas.
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Johann Sebastian Bach Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke. Serie IV: Orgelwerke. Band 6. Präludien, Toccaten, Fantasien und Fugen II. Frühfassungen und Varianten zu I und II [Johann Sebastian Bach's new edition of complete works. Series IV: Organ Works. Book 6. Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias and Fugues II. Early versions and variants to I and II].
Edited by Dietrich Kilian.
Published by Bärenreiter, Kassel.
Contents:
A. Präludien, Toccaten, Fantasien und Fugen II.
- Toccata in C BWV 564
- Fantasia in C BWV 570
- Fantasia in C BWV 573 (Fragment)
- Fuga in c BWV 574 (über ein Thema von Legrenzi)
- Fuga in c BWV 575
- Toccata con Fuga in d BWV 565
- Praeludium et Fuga in E BWV 566
- Praeludium in G BWV 568
- Fuga in g BWV 578
- Praeludium in a BWV 569
- Praeludium con Fuga in a BWV 551
- Fantasia in h BWV 563
- Fuga in h BWV 579 (über ein Thema von Corelli)
B. Frühfassungen und Varianten zu I (Band IV/5) und II (Band IV/6):
- Praeludium et Fuga in C BWV 545a
- Fuga in c BWV 574a (über ein Thema von Legrenzi)
Fuga in c BWV 574b (über ein Thema von Legrenzi) - Fuga in D BWV 532a
- Praeludium (Fantasia) et Fuga in d BWV 549a
- Praeludium et Fuga in e BWV 533a
- Praeludium et Fuga in g BWV 535a (Fragment)
- Praeludium et Fuga in A BWV 536a
- Praeludium et Fuga in a BWV 543a
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The score contains pencil markings by Peter Hurford.
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The score has been bound in a brown hardcover.