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Thomas Braatz wrote (September 20, 2002):
BWV 27 - Provenance:
The Autograph Score:
The autograph score is in the BB (Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz.)
After Bach’s death the score came into C.P.E. Bach’s possession, where it was recorded as existing in his (CPE’s) estate at the time of his death. From there it went to the library of the Berliner Singakademie. In 1855 it was sold to the Royal Library of Berlin (Königliche Bibliothek Berlin.)
The original title in Bach’s handwriting is missing. C.P.E. Bach writes out the title, but on top of the 1st page of the score Bach wrote:
J. J. Concerto Doīca 16 post Trinit. [The line over the ‘ī’ is an abbreviation for ‘mini’.]
Between mvts. 2 & 3:
Aria à Hautb da Caccia e Cembalo obligato
And above the oboe part:
Hautb. da Caccia
Mvt. 4:
Recit. Violini e Viole
After mvt. 4:
Aria sequitur
Beginning of mvt. 5:
Aria Violini è Viole
At the end of mvt. 5:
Choral
Under the chorale:
Fine SDG.
The Original Parts:
Although several of the original parts had remained with C.P.E. Bach along with the autograph score, the remaining parts found their way via the Berliner Singakademie to the BB. At some point they had belonged to the manuscript collection of the Counts Voß-Buch where the missing pages were united with the others.
Ten separate copyists [anonymous/unknown] were involved in creating the set of parts. Christian Gottlob Meißner (not among the above) is the only one known by name. Bach revised and made corrections to the parts, but he did not finished putting in the numbers for the figured bass. He probably ran out of time before finishing it.
The final chorale is a composition by Johann Rosenmüller, dating from 1649 where it served as part of the funeral service for Johann Elisabeth Teller, Leipzig. In the printed version of the latter, the title is “Valet und Trostlied eine Sterbenden” [“A Farewell and Song of Comfort for a person who is dying.”] |
