Johann Sebastian Bach: Now Thank We All Our God

This volume devised by Martin Weyer contains organ music of easy to medium technical difficulty for use at communion. The broad range of styles encompasses Johann Sebastian Bach and early Classical works through to the late Romantic period.

The album contains original compositions and first publications as well as arrangements for organ and twelve pieces for communion in settings by Johann Sebastian Bach with melodies and texts appropriate to communion. Some of the pieces can also be performed with solo instruments (in C, Bb or F). Corresponding instrumental parts are included with the score.

- Organ music of easy to medium technical difficulty for use at communion
- Broad range of styles
- Includes first publications
- Original compositions and arrangements for organ, some which can be performed with solo instruments. / [Musique pour Communion] / Célébrations / Partition /

The 'organ plus? one series was conceived primarily with semi-professional church musicians and instrumentalists in mind.Based on the liturgical year, the pieces can be readily performed in church services, evening recitals or small concerts.Included are pieces which are freely-composed or based on chorales, both original works and arrangements.Each edition includes solo parts for instruments in C, B-flat, E-flat and F which can be played by violin, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet and horn in F. The range of the solo instruments remains in the middle register.Among the pieces in this edition are John Alcock, 'Fuga? - ChristliebSiegmund Binder, 'Prelude in F major? - Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, 'Fanfare? - Max Philipp Zeyhold, 'Concerto in A major? - Johann Sebastian Bach, 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan? - Karl Hoyer, 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier? - Carl Piutti, 'Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König? - and Carsten Klomp, 'Grosser Gott, wir loben dich?. / Orgue

Now Thank We All Our God was a hymn first written by the German priest Martin Rinkart in the 1630s. It has been adapted many times over the years most famously by Mendelssohn as a hymn tune. The version here was created as the third movement of Bach's Cantata BWV 79 (The Lord is a Sun and Shield) written for Reformation Day in 1725. It has been arranged for SATB choir with keyboard accompaniment presented here with the popular English text.J. S. Bach (1685-1750) was a German Baroque composer who is revered for the originality and skill of his contrapuntal and harmonic techniques. He spent most of his life working as an organistand choirmaster and wrote many ecclesiastical works.

From early in the 17th century until the form engaged the interest of Johann Sebastian Bach various notable German composers - including Rosenmüller Fischer Fasch and Telemann - had contributed to the development of the orchestral suite or 'Ouverture' whose name betrays its French theatrical origins. From Bach himself only four such suites have survived thanks to the diligence of C.F.Penzel a student at the Thomasschule from 1751 who made copies of Bach's MSS which he found there. Thus neither the dates nor the order of composition of the suites can be established with any certainty. As to the present suite in D major recent criticism suggests that it mayoriginally have been written for strings only and dates in its final form from around 1731. Penzel's copy of the suite includes significant variants to be played by a solo violin (marked Violino Concertato) which are included here in the Appendices.The score is newly-edited from the extant sources consisting of sets of parts (some in Bach's autograph) and copyist's scores are preserved in the Staastbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbestitz Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv. This edition replaces the former Eulenburg miniature score edited by Wilhelm Altmann.

Orgelchoräle Der Leipziger Handschrift. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Editorial Board: Werner Breig/ Pieter Dirksen/ Reinmar Emans music text faithful to the sources and reflecting the current status of Bach research developed for musical practice through the cooperation of scholars and performers contains all of Bach's keyboard works that require an independent pedal manual contains all authentic early versions and fragmentarily transmitted or dubious works that can be attributed to Bach with a fair amount of certainty features comprehensive introductions, extensive source descriptions and text-critical notes features supplementary material illustrated synoptically on CD-ROM (in printable quality) brochure, in large format (32 x 25 cm) and compact music engraving, clear, easy to read, with convenient page turns 'The Breitkopf edition is obviously preferable if you're buying new copies. The series so far has been most impressive.' (Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review) Subscription Conditions A subscription is only possible for the complete collection. The subscription price of the volumes is 20% lower than the final sales price. A subscription can begin at any time. The subscription obliges the subscriber to purchase the entire collection. The New Edition of Bach's Complete Organ Works With repertoire works, musicians often have the choice between editions conceived for practical music-making and others that are more scholarly in concept. This also applies to the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, which are available today in various editions. Among them is that of Heinz Lohmann, which Breitkopf and Härtel began publishing in 1967 and whose concept strove for an amalgamation of practice and Urtext. Current Urtext status, historically informed, edited with performers in mind: More than 40 years later, the demands made on a new Urtext edition of Bach's organ works are as stringent as ever before. Next to the results of scholarly research on Bach and the sources, aspects of a historically informed performance practice are increasingly claiming our attention today. Also important for study, teaching and concert performance are, in addition to the above-mentioned demands, such external criteria as format, paper, convenient page turns and an easily legible layout that helps the user quickly grasp the musical context. The new edition, beginning in 2010, also contains all keyboard works with pedal and the 'dubious works' that are hardly dubious anymore The edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works which Breitkopf and Härtel is beginning to publish in fall 2010 wants to do justice to these demands. Next to the core contents of the repertoire, it will also feature all of the master's 'clavier' works which require an independent pedal. Moreover, it will include all authentic early versions as well as the fragmentarily transmitted works. As to the dubious works, it will contain those which can be attributed to Bach today with considerable certainty. It offers incerta, early, and alternative versions on CD-ROM In this work group, the new edition uses for the first time the modern forms of editorial technique with which the synoptical depiction of various versions is made possible on CD-ROM. Thanks to the collaboration with the EDIROM project, which is a leader in the field of digital scientific editorial technique, the edition offers new types of solutions. Incerta, early, and alternative versions that cannot be included in the printed volumes for reasons of size or problems of authenticity, are published on CD-ROM, supplied with comments, and depicted synoptically. Thus, after comparing the versions, the player can decide upon a different version than the one printed in the volume, and can make a high-quality print-out of it. The texts and comments customary to the 'Breitkopf Urtext' editions comprehensive introductions, extensive source descriptions and text-critical observations can be found in the printed version of the volumes. Edited by a competent team: With Werner Breig (Erlangen), Pieter Dirksen (Culemborg/Netherlands) and Reinmar Emans (Bochum), a.o. we have brought together a team that guarantees the highest expertise in various domains. Further Bach experts such as Sven Hiemke (Hamburg), David Schulenberg (Boston) and Jean-Claude Zehnder (Basel) were also enlisted for the edition of single volumes. Werner Breig (* 1932) studied Evangelical church music in Berlin as well as musicology in Erlangen and Hamburg. He obtained his doctorate in 1962 and completed his habilitation (postdoctoral lecturing qualification) in 1973. He then devoted himself to musicology at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br, Karlsruhe, Wuppertal and Bochum. Since his retirement in 1997 he has been living in Erlangen. Between 1997 and 2007 Breig was appointed General Editor of the complete edition of Richard Wagners letters. He is the author of many publications and editions, particularly of early clavier and organ music by Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, but also of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg. Furthermore he is the author of the Bach article in the dictionary Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG, 2nd edition). Pieter Dirksen (* 1961) studied organ, harpsichord and musicology. His 1996 doctoral thesis on Sweelinck's keyboard music was awarded the Praemium Erasmianum. Dirksen has since published many studies on, and editions of, several masters of the 17th century (Sweelinck, Bull, Cornet, Scheidt, Scheidemann, Buxtehude, Luebeck, Johann Christoph Bach) as well as Johann Sebastian Bach. In collaboration with Harald Vogel, he edited Sweelinck's Complete Works for Keyboard Instrument (4 volumes, Breitkopf and Härtel). Dirksen is a member of the academic board of the Bach-Jahrbuch as well as a sought-after harpsichordist, organist and continuo player in international ensembles. Dirksen issued a number of much-acclaimed solo recordings (Sweelinck, Scheidemann, Boehm, Louis Couperin, Bach-Vivaldi, Bachs Art of Fugue and Goldberg Variations). Edison Winner 2003. Reinmar Emans (* 1953) studied musicology in Bonn and wrote his doctoral thesis on the cantatas and canzonettas of Giovanni Legrenzi in 1982. From 1983 to 2008 he was an academic staff member of the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen, and temporarily deputy of the managing director. He has taught in Bochum, Marburg, Detmold, Cologne and Hamburg, and has been a freelance contributor to various music periodicals. In 2000 he was responsible for the conception and direction of the Thuringian state exhibition 'Der junge Bach: Weil er nicht aufzuhalten' in Erfurt. He has conducted research and produced publications on opera and the cantata in 17th-century Italy, on stylistic development in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and on editorial philology./ Répertoire / Orgue

Arreglo de Piano para Danza. Par AGUADO SAUL. This book that has emerged thanks to the wonderful World of dance contains arrangements of musical pieces from the 17th-20th centurias. A CD with recordings of all of the pieces and instructions for its use as dance accompaniment are included as well./ Recueil / Piano

Plus de 100 mélodies piano intemporels ont été regroupés en un seul volume de haute qualité pour que vous puissiez jouer à la maison. De Bach aux Beatles, de Chopin aux alentours, ce sont les classiques de piano à feuillage persistant que tout le monde aime ! Ces arrangements légèrement simplifiées d'accompagnement Piano et guitare conservent leur caractère et la mélodie classique tout en offrant la possibilité de développer des joueurs à en profiter. / Piano

24 Übertragungen aus Werken von J.S. Bach. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Our edition is based on Fritz Schindlers 24 transcriptions of works by Bach for flute solo from the year 1896. Long an essential part of every student flutists repertoire, this book features comprehensive studies in finger technique and stimulatingexercises in phrasing, articulation and dynamics thanks to the high musical quality of the pieces. Gerhard Braun has revised the musical text, eliminated the many expressive markings and slurs that had been added to editions of early music inSchindlers day, and restored their original forms. The player thus has a greater amount of interpretive freedom and a variety of different performance possibilities. Table of contents: Allegro assai from BWV 1005 Courante from BWV 1007 Courante from BWV 1009 Double from BWV 1002 Giga from BWV 1004 Prelude BWV 846 Prelude BWV 924 Prelude BWV 999 Preludio from BWV 1006 Prelude from BWV 1007 Prelude from BWV 1012 Sarabande from BWV 1007 / Répertoire d'Examen / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière

Kantate Zum Neujahrstag. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This cantata was first performed in Leipzig on New Year’s Day 1726. It belongs to a small group of compositions which were composed between Advent 1725 and mid-January 1726 and whose text were written by the same author. There is no reference to the New Year in connection with the circumcision and naming of Jesus in this “afternoon worship service. ” Rather the thoughts in this work are concerned with the praise of God and thanks for his good deeds./ Répertoire / Solistes ATB, Choeur SATB, Cor Da Caccia, 2 Hautbo

Kantate Zum Neujahrstag. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This cantata was first performed in Leipzig on New Year’s Day 1726. It belongs to a small group of compositions which were composed between Advent 1725 and mid-January 1726 and whose text were written by the same author. There is no reference to the New Year in connection with the circumcision and naming of Jesus in this “afternoon worship service. ” Rather the thoughts in this work are concerned with the praise of God and thanks for his good deeds./ Répertoire / Solistes ATB, Choeur SATB, Cor Da Caccia, 2 Hautbo

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2004-12-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, (2 Hautbois), 3 Trombon

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2004-12-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, (2 Hautbois), 3 Trombon

Kantate Zum Michaelisfest. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Thanks to the false attribution to Johann Sebastian Bach [BWV 219] of the cantata for St. Michael’s Day Siehe! es hat überwunden der Löwe TVWV 1:1328 by Georg Philipp Telemann, one of Telemann’s works experienced an unusually early renaissance. In 1884 the cantata was published in the Bach-Gesamtausgabe [Complete Edition] and from then onwards enjoyed some fame as an “apocryphal” Bach cantata. Alfred Dürr was able to identify the work as a composition by Telemann in the 1950s. / Date parution : 2005-01-01/ Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, ou 2 Hautbois, 3 Trombo