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Add MS 35021
- Record Id:
- 040-001606150
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002088042
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001403.0x0002b3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100052141780.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 35021
- Title:
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2.
- Scope & Content:
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2. 21 of the 24 preludes and fugues of the second book of the ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’, BWV 870-872, 875-880, 882-893. All the music is in the hand of the composer, with the exception of the preludes and fugues in C minor, D minor, E major and G major, and part of the F major prelude (f. 8r), which are in the hand of his second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach. The music is written on two staves of 5 lines each, the upper part of which in the C clef, except ff. 1 and 13-14v where the G clef is employed.
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002088042
040-001606150 - Is part of:
- Add MS 34996-35027 : Wesley Bequest
Add MS 35021 : Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2. - Contains:
- Add MS 35021, ff 1r-1v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praelude et Fugue 1’; ‘Fuga à 3’ (Prelude and fugue in C major, BWV 870). Autograph
Add MS 35021, ff 2r-2v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 2’ and ‘Fuga 2’ (Prelude and fugue in C minor, BWV 871). In the hand of Anna Magdalena Bach.
Add MS 35021, ff 3r-3v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 3’ and ‘Fuga’ (Prelude and fugue in C sharp major, BWV 872). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 4r-4v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 6’ and ‘Fuga. 6’ (Prelude and fugue in D minor, BWV 875). In the hand of Anna Magdalena…
Add MS 35021, ff 5r-5v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 7’ and ‘Fuga 7’ (Prelude and fugue in E flat major, BWV 876). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 6r-6v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 8’ and ‘Fuga a 4’ (Prelude and fugue in D sharp minor, BWV 879). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 7r-7v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 10’ and ‘fuga 10’ (Prelude and fugue in E minor, BWV 879). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 8r-8v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 11’ and ‘Fuga 11’ (Prelude and fugue in F major, BWV 880). Autograph, with the first 19…
Add MS 35021, ff 9r-9v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 13’ and ‘Fuga à 3. 13’ (Prelude and fugue in F sharp major, BWV 882). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 10r-10v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 14’ and ‘Fuga 14’ (Prelude and fugue in F sharp minor, BWV 883). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 11r-11v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 15’ and ‘Fuga 15’ (Prelude and fugue in G major, BWV 884). In the hand of Anna…
Add MS 35021, ff 12r-12v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 16’ and ‘Fuga 16’ (Prelude and fugue in G minor, BWV 885). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 13r-14v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 17 è Fugue’; ‘Fuga. ex As dur. 17’ (Prelude and fugue in A flat major, BWV 886).
Add MS 35021, ff 15r-15v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 18’ and ‘Fuga’ (Prelude and fugue in G sharp minor, BWV 887). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 16r-16v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 19’ and ‘Fuga 19’ (Prelude and fugue in A major, BWV 888). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 17r-17v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 20’ and ‘Fuga 20’ (Prelude and fugue in A minor, BWV 889). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 18r-18v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 21’ and ‘Fuga 21’ (Prelude and fugue in B flat major, BWV 890). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 19r-19v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 22’ and ‘fuga a 4. 22.’ (Prelude and fugue in B flat minor, BWV 891). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 20r-20v : J. S. Bach: ‘Prelude 23’ and ‘fuga a 4. 23.’ (Prelude and fugue in B major, BWV 892). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 21r-21v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 24’ and ‘Fuga 24’ (Prelude and fugue in B minor, BWV 893). Autograph.
Add MS 35021, ff 22r-22v : J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 9’ and ‘Fuga 9’ (Prelude and fugue in E major, BWV 878). In the hand of Anna Magdalena…
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- 032-002088042[0025]/040-001606150
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 34996-35027
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 22 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100052141780.0x000001
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- Languages:
- German
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1739
- End Date:
- 1742
- Date Range:
- [1739-1742]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available in surrogate form only
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 1 vol. ff. 22. 290-340 x 395-404 mm. Six distinct watermarks: hammer and anvil; Schönburg coat of arms; two-headed eagle; three lilies with unicorn (f. 13 only); two-headed eagle with sceptre (f. 15 only); two-headed eagle with letters HR (f. 20 only).
- Custodial History:
- Probably inherited by Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann in 1750; acquired by Muzio Clementi in London in c.1820-1; bought at auction by John George Emett, and inherited by his son John Sebastian Wilmot Emett in 1847, who sold the MS at Christie’s in ca. 1859 when it was bought by Clarissa Sarah Clarke (née Douglas). In 1879, 20 of the 21 preludes and fugues were sold by Clarissa Clarke to Sarah Harriet Emett, and one leaf, containing the prelude and fugue in E major, was retained by Clarissa Clarke. In 1891 the MS was bequeathed by Sarah Emett to Eliza Wesley.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bequeathed by Eliza Wesley to the British Museum in 1896; the same year, the British Museum purchased the leaf with the E major prelude and fugue (f. 22) from Clarissa Clarke.
- Publications:
- See Johann Sebastian Bach, Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II: facsimile of the autograph manuscript in the British Library, Add. Ms. 35021, British Library Music Facsimiles, 1 (London, 1980).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)