Re: bourgeois and bach


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Posted by Brandon Ostrom on November 11, 2003 at 19:56:45:

In Reply to: bourgeois and bach posted by just curious on November 11, 2003 at 15:14:38:

Well, there are over 40 different editions of the suites stemming from the manuscripts of Anna Magdalena Bach, (Bach's hoe) Johann Peter Kellner (Bach's friend), Johann Christoph Westphal (some loser)and another Anonymous person.

All of these have their own slurring, otherwise articulation and even note quirks!! Even after many thorough years of scholary study and debate, not one of these editions has been found to be "superior", or "undenyably written by Bach's own hand" or any such thing. We just don't know. Most, though, prefer to go with Anna's for some reason.....

http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/bach/cello_suites/vc100712.pdf

That's where to get Anna's version. (don't pay much attention to the marked slurs though, Anna had no idea what the hell she was doing with slurs)


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