There are countless editions of the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. Edition Peters has now published a complete edition for the first time, containing the complete material from Bach’s 1722 and 1725 notebooks. Christoph Wolff, renowned Bach specialist, professor at Harvard University and long-time director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, is the editor of this bibliophile Urtext edition. Bibliophile is the right term here [...] the publication shows the company’s deep connection to Bach in several ways. In addition to a foreword, the inside pages contain all piano pieces from Bach’s books in a clean, very well-placed typesetting. Reproductions of Bach’s original manuscript make the bridge between the past and the present easy to understand. Close to the original and very beautifully realised, this Notebook is worthy of distinction. Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband (Best Edition 2020)
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1722 & 1725 New Critical Edition · Edited by Christoph Wolff In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Köthen married the court’s Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As his second wife she married into a young family with four children, and a busy household filled with music. The music book that Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his new wife Anna Magdalena in 1722, and replaced more lavishly in 1725, treats us to a tantalizing glimpse inside this unique family, allowing us to sit beside Bach as a composer, teacher, husband and father. Over the years, these notebooks became a place for the family to share instructional exercises, favorite pieces – by Bach and other composers – to play or sing, early composition efforts from the children, and first versions of some of Bach’s more ambitious keyboard works. What is usually presented as ‘the’ Anna Magdalena Notebook is a set of excerpts from the 1725 collection. The scholarship that informed the New Bach Edition in 1957 has been greatly developed and expanded since then. Now, for the first time, Edition Peters presents a new Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, containing all the material from the 1722 and 1725 books together in one volume, in the original landscape format. Edited by pre-eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff (Harvard Professor and former Director of the Leipzig Bach Archive), this new publication represents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists. Premium Scholarly Edition EP 11500 · ISMN 979-0-014-12600-1
With an extensive preface, detailed critical commentary, and beautifully engraved notation, the hardcover clothbound edition with gold embossing offers a truly best-in-class publication.
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Practical Student Edition EP 11501 · ISMN 979-0-014-12601-8
The practical edition of the volume draws from the scholarly edition, and presents a selection of the most popular pieces from the two notebooks, perfect for use by students of all ages and their teachers.
