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BR.OB-32108-11
With Insertion
Movements for
Performances over
Christmas - Urtext.
Composed by Johann
Kuhnau. Edited by David
Erler. Choir; stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Mass; Baroque. Part. 24
pages. Duration 30'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32108-11. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-32108-11).
ISBN
9790004343050. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Kuhnau's
Magnificat in C major is
- apart from his Biblical
Sonatas - considered to
be his most ambitious and
best known work. However,
as recent research has
revealed, there are
indeed many other
large-scale works among
his oeuvre which are
largely presumed lost
today, apart from those
that were published as
first editions. Until
now, only insufficient or
erroneous editions of the
Magnificat have been
available, a piano
reduction has not been
available at all. Beyond
that, editor David Erler
has succeeded in tracking
down new evidence on the
authorship of four Laudes
(insertion movements for
performances over
Christmas) and to carry
out their altogether new
placement in the main
work. He was able to
prove that Bach's
Magnificat directly
succeeded Kuhnaus's work
and that the use of such
Laudes was common in
Leipzig's parish churches
and beyond.