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Re: Bach work discovered



At 12:01 PM 04/27/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_727000/727183.stm
>

OK, I checked this out and what it says in part is:

>
>One of the last pieces of music written by Johann
>Sebastian Bach has been published for the first time in a
new biography of the composer. 
>
>The new work is a motet -a style of choral music - adapted
>from a composition by Bach's long-dead uncle, also called
>Johann. 
>
>It was discovered in an archive in Kiev in the Ukraine
>which also contains scores of unpublished and
>unperformed works by Bach's son, Carl. 

Curious, I found out the name of the book (Bach: The Learned Musician) and
leafed through it in a local bookstore.  I didn't see any music published;
just a few reproductions of fragments, one of some of the music, one of a
cover page or something like that.

Was I missing something?

Also - is this really a work by Bach, or just an arrangement of his uncle's
music?  Does anyone know of any recently discovered original Bach works?
Have you heard or seen any of them?

Michael


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Michael Arnowitt
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