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Bach Performances of Works by Other Composers

Sacred Vocal Works, stile antico & moderno

Sources:
Kirsten Beißwenger, “Bach’s Involvement (Eingriffe) in Extraneous Work Compositions,” Bach Jahrbuch 1991, 127-47
Christoph Wolff, “Bach and the Tradition of the Palestrina Style,” Bach: Essays on His Life and Music, 1991, pp. 84-101. Dates are manuscript

 

Composer

Work

Date/s

Comments

Marco Gioseppe Peranda (1625-1675)

Kyrie in C major

c1709

=

Johann Christoph Pez (1664-1716)

Missa San Lamberti in A minor; Kyrie

1714-17

 
 

Missa San Lamberti in A minor; Gloria, BWV Anh. 24

1724

 

Johann Baal (1657-1701):

Missa in A

1714-17

 

Anon

Missa in C major, BWV Anh. 29

1714-17

 

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681-1732)

Cantata Languet anima mea
J.S. Bach added 2 oboes
& bc


1718-22
1724

Recordings: Hengelbrock/Hänssler, Kozena/Archiv

Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670-1724):

Kyrie from Missa Brevis in G minor

1725-29

 

Francesco Durante (1684-1755) *

Missa in c; J.S. Bach insert Christe eleison in G minor, BWV 242; Kyrie in 3 (incl. nd)

1727-31

BCW: Other Vocal (Details)

Johann Nicolaus Bach [27] (1669-1753) or Johann Ludwig Bach [3/72] (1677-1731) *

Missa in E minor, BWV Anh. 166

1729

BCW: Short Composer Biographies

Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)

Magnificat in D major, ZWV 108

1729-35

Recording: Sazuki/Bis, w/ Magnificat BWV 243

Johann Melchior Molter ? (1696-1765)

Lukas-Passion BWV 246

Apr 8, 1735

 

Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) *

Missa sapientiae in G minor (4-6vv., 1732-35); ?copy in Gajor (2 chs), (?JLB or A. Lotti), Missa in G major, BWV Anh. 167

1738-39

BCW: Lotti Short Biography
Recording: Hengelbrock/DHM w/ Magnificat BWV 243

Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) *

Magnificat in C major (1716-36), SATB, orch.; Bärenreiter pub.); in Suscepit Israel, BWV 1082, J.S. Bach added 2 vns. in cpt

1740-42

BCW: Other Vocal

Anon

Missa in C major, BWV Anh. 25

c1740-42

 

Giovanni da Palestrina, (1525-1594)

Missa Sine Nomine SSATTB (in Kyrie, Gloria J.S. Bach added 2 cor., 3 tb)

c1742

Recording: Cap. Mus./Naxos)

Anon (?Antonio Lotti; C. Wolff/Stile):

Magnificat in C major, BWV Anh. 30,

c1742

 

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-36) *

Stabat Mater (1736); J.S. Bach added str. cpt., German parody Psalm 51, BWV 1083

1744-48 or 1745-47

BCW: Other Vocal

Giovanni Battista Bassani (1657-1716) *

Mass #5 in F major(Acroama Missale (6, 1709); JSB inserts 16 mm. Intonation to Credo, BWV 1081

1747-48

BCW: Other Vocal

Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693) *

Missa Superba, Sanctus in E major (8vv), BWV 241

1747-48

BCW: Other Vocal (Details), Short Composer Biography

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756)

Cantata Durch die herzliche Barmherzigkeit

Late 1740's ?

 
       

Notes:

1. JSB Music Library (Notenbibliotek) incl. 30 Missae, Mass sections, Magnificats. Other influences: Monteverdi, Missa in illo tempore (1610); Heinrich Schütz, Geistlich Chormusik (w/out bc), Christoph Bernhard (1628-92), 2 Dresden chorale Masses; Joh. Chris. Schmidt (1664-1728), Kyrie in D; unpub. Missa brevisae of Buxtehude, Telemann, Stoelzel.

2. Two major publications in JSB Music Library: Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583-1643), Fiori Musicale (1635) with Kyrie versets, 4vv. kybd. (JSB personal copy, now lost); and Fux, Johann Joseph (1660-1741), Gradus ad Parnassum (1725), Masses & motets (cpt.), JSB Print copy. Another book: Erhardt Bodenschatz (1576-1636), Floilegium Portense, pub. Leipzig 1618-1621, German & Italian motets.

3. In 1729, Bach ordered music to incl. Lassus, Händel, Insegneri, the Gabriellis.

4. Bach BWV 232 Resource Book: www.music.qub.ac.uk / tomita / bachbib / conferences / Belfast-Nov2007 / shared / BMM-DB2

* In BCW listings

 

Secular Vocal Works of Other Composers

(Andreas Gloeckner: Neuerkenntnisse zu J.S. Bachs Auffuehrungskalendar, Bach Jahrbuch 1981, pp. 63-71)

Composer

Work

Date/s

Comments

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759):

Cantata Armida Abbandonata, HWV 105

1731 (OCC:JSB, 89)

Source: Gerlach Collegium Musicum Library to Breitkopf; Wolff JSB:TLM, 333, 501
Recording: Hengelbrock/Hänssler

Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)

Cantatas: Dal primo foco cui penai, Sopra un colle fiorito, Ecco l’infausto lido

c1734

Source: Gerlach Collegium Musicum Library to Breitkopf; Wolff JSB:TLM, 333, 501

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725):

Cantata So amor con un contento

1730-37

Source: Gerlach Collegium Musicum Library to Breitkopf; Wolff JSB:TLM, 333, 501

 

Instrumental Works of Other Composers

Christoph Wolff: Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), pp. 333

Composer

Work

Date/s

Comments

Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749)

4 orchestral overtures

1730's

 

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1794)

Concerto Grosso in F minor, Op. 1, No. 8

1730's

 
 

Compiled by William L. Hoffman
Contributed by William L. Hoffman (July 2008), Aryeh Oron (October 2008 - November 2008)


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