SKU: CA.3720714

ISBN 9790007214609. Language: German.

The cantata Auf, auf, ihr Herzen, seid bereit was composed for the fourth Sunday in Advent, most certainly during Homilius's tenure as Kreuzkantor in Dresden between 1755 and 1785, although a more precise dating is not possible. The author of the cantata text is unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3720700.

SKU: CA.4096209

ISBN 9790007078805. Key: D major. Language: Latin.

This is a very effective setting of the Marian antiphon for Easter was probably composed in Dresden. The piece consists of two practically identically outer movements which frame an expressive, but restrained alto aria. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4096200.

SKU: BR.EB-4063

ISBN 9790004162224. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

The Publication in facsimile of the auto graphic copy of Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in A major BWV 234 at the occasion of the Bach Anniversary Year 1985 has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the publishing house which so carefully preserved this precious manuscript in its archives for almost 200 years. The manuscript was acquired long ago by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, the brilliant and dynamic forefather of the publishing house Breitkopf & Hartel, who conducted a prosperous business selling music transcriptions in Leipzig. It is still unclear as to how he obtained the manuscript. Perhaps it had belonged to the estate of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, from whom Breitkopf apparently acquired a part of his Bach collection. The earliest reference to the manuscript's change of ownership is found in Breitkopfs Verzeichniss Musicalischer Werke of 1761, which includes Bach's Missa, a 2 Flauti, 2 Violini, Viola 4 Voci, Organo under the listing of copies of unpublished compositions. The copy was available at the price of 2 thl. (thalers) 12gl. (groschen). A few years later, in 1769, the same offer appeared again together with other works by Bach or ascribed to him in the Verzeichniss lateinischer und italianischer Kirchen-Musiken of Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf & Sohn. In more recent times, the work has been mentioned in Wilhelm Hitzig's Katalog des Archivs von Breitkopf & Hartel, revised in 1925, together with the continuo part, which was included with the copy and which was also originally written in Bach's own hand. The economic reorganization of the publishing house Breitkopf & Hartel after the Second World War made it necessary to sell the manuscript together with other works from the publisher's archives. This manuscript was to have been put up at auction by the auction house J. A. Stargardt. The catalogue, containing an informative commentary by Wolfgang Schmieder, was already printed, but before the auction could take place, the land of Hesse decided to purchase all the manuscripts, thus preventing the dispersion of this valuable collection. The manuscript was officially handed over to the Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek in Darmstadt on 29 October 1953. The A major Mass is still preserved there today, together with its fellow piece, the Mass in G major BWV 236.

SKU: DZ.DZ-2749

ISBN 9782897376666.

SKU: CA.5034800

ISBN 9790007081478. Key: C major. Language: Latin.

Contents: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109, C major) Confitebor (Ps 110, E flat major) Beatus vir (Ps 111, G major) Laudate pueri (Ps 112, B flat major) Laudate Dominum (Ps 116, F major) Magnificat (Vespercanticum, C major).

SKU: CA.9110105

ISBN 9790007115654. Language: Latin.

Score available separately - see item CA.9110100.