| EINLEITUNG
FORKEL |
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Vorrede
I. Herkunft
II. Lebensgeschichte
III. Der Klavierspieler
IV. Der Orgelspieler
V. Der Komponist
VI. Der Komponist
VII. Der Lehrer
VIII. Der Mensch
IX. Werke
X. Künstlerische Entwicklung
XI. Würdigung des Genies |
| ANHANG
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: |
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Nekrolog auf Johann Sebastian Bach (1754)
und Briefe an Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1774, 1775) |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: |
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Genealogie "Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie"
(1735)
mit Zusätzen Carl Phjilipp Emanuel Bachs an Johann
Nikolaus Forkel (1774/75) |
| Johann Nikolaus Forkel: |
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Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik (1778)
§1 und 2 der Einleitung |
Anmerkungen
Literatur
Sach-Glossar
Personen-Index
Werk-Register |
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an ideal copy for students
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Those readers who need to refer to the original edition for whatever
reasons will be pleased to find that this edition gives the page numbers
of the original edition in the margins. The scholars who wish to refer
to Forkel’s original text can therefore make easy reference to the original.
There are a number of excellent features added by the editor for students
and non-specialist readers, e.g. the editor’s notes (27 of them, which
you can access directly to from Forkel’s text), a list of Forkel’s other
major publications, a list of the translations, secondary literatures about
Forkel and the significance of his influence to Bach studies, and the glossaries
/ indices of terms, names and Bach’s works.
The most valuable feature of this book is the supplement consisting
of various documents as shown left. In fact, they are also reproduced in
both Bach Dokumente (1963f) and New
Bach Readers (1998)—two of the most important reference books for
biographical studies of J. S. Bach, except the last item (i.e. Allgemeine
Geschichte der Musik, 1778). Nevertheless, it will be very useful if
you do not have them at hand. What interests me most is the text of the
third item, Genealogie: Knispel’s text seems to give an intermediate reading
between what we find in Bach Dokumente I/184 (which gives the version
of 1735 by Bach) and New Bach Reader, no. 303 (which incorporates
the additions by CPE Bach and others, c.1774). As I do not have further
sources (e.g. Müller-Blattau’s
edition of 1950 from Bärenreiter), I was unable to determine whether
or not the differences between the latter and this edition reflect something
significant. (Compare, for example, entry No.21 for Joh. Valentin Bach).
Other potential problems in the edition are the music examples; if you
think that they are the accurate reproduction of the original edition,
they are unfortunately not. Although they are mostly accurately re-typeset,
their original layout is not retained. Furthermore, I noticed some errors
in Figure 16.8 (the positions of two custos) and Fig.16.9 (‘Fuga’ in which
all the ornament symbols are given incorrectly). There is one instance
where the direction of stems in Fig.16.5 is given inaccurately, too.
As can be seen in the picture above, this new edition from Henschel
Verlag is considerably smaller than the facsimile issued by Bärenreiter
in 1999: the main text is given in 9 pt, which may be normal for this size
of book; yet unless your eyesight is very good, you may find the supplements
(7 pt) and all the notes (6 pt) difficult to read. |
