Four Overtures (Orchestral Suites) (BWV 1066-1069) (Full Score, hardback)

J S Bach Four Overtures (Orchestral Suites) (BWV 1066-1069) (Full Score, hardback)

J.S. Bach’s four Orchestral Suites belong to that select group of works one could truly call classical hits!  They stem from Bach’s extremely productive time in Cöthen which ended in 1721.

Unfortunately the only sources that have come down to us are copyist parts from Leipzig.  These originally formed the basis for the critical complete edition volume which was published in 1967 as part of the New Bach Edition.

- New Bach Edition Series VII/1

New Bach Edition

Edited by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen and by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig

The New Bach Edition is an Urtext edition offering the world of scholarship a reliable musical text which is equally useful in performance.  Prepared with the most exacting methods of source criticism, it has set new standards for modern scholarly-critical editions in the latter half of the 20th century.  Work on the New Bach Edition led to the rediscovery of lost compositions and resolved many questions of authenticity in the Bach canon.  Most of all, however, the close study of the sources has occasioned a large-scale revision of the chronology of Bach's life, thereby forming the basis for a new image of the composer in our time. 

In each series, the volumes not only contain those works by Bach which have survived intact but also those existing as fragments.  In addition to a preface, each musical volume presents a selection of the relevant sources in facsimile. It is also accompanied by a separately published critical report (German text) describing all the extant sources for each work and the manner in which they interrelate.  The report also gathers together all the known facts regarding the work’s genesis and lists the most important variant readings.