Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725 Piano - Clothbound Hardcover Book

Edition Peters

Notebooks For Anna Magdalena Bach 1722 & 1725 Piano - Clothbound Hardcover Book with Gold Embossing (Urtext Edition)  📚

For the first time, Edition Peters present a new hard cover premium Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach, containing all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks together in one volume, in their original landscape format. 

What are The Notebooks For Anna Magdalena?

In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Kothen married the court's Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As Bach's 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 tantalising 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, favourite 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.  

With 184 pages, this clothbound hardcover edition, adorned with gold embossing, is a valuable resource for musicians, scholars, and enthusiasts interested in exploring the musical treasures and familial connections within the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach.

Now, for the first time, Edition Peters presents a new Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach.

• Contains all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks 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
• Represents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists
• Extensive preface, detailed critical commentary, and beautifully engraved notation
• Hardcover clothbound edition with gold embossing
• Printed in Kothen and bound in Leipzig - the home of Bach and the home of Edition

This premium edition offers a truly best-in-class publication.