From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Subject: Re: Bach music for solo strings
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:28:55 GMT

In <64940131@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts) writes:

>Incidently, try to find a copy of the facsimile of the manuscript for
>the violin partitas and sonatas. The handwriting is truly sublime.  It
>is almost as much fun to look at it as to hear it played.

That advice I wrote in a PM, too. It's not hard to find:

Here in Germany get:

 Bach, Johann S: Sonaten und Partiten fuer Violine allein.
   Wiedergabe der Handschrift. Einl. v. Menuhin, Yehudi. Hrsg. v.
   Hausswald, Guenter. Neuaufl. 1979. 66 S. (Insel-Buecherei 655)
   'Insel Ffm /KNO' Kt DM 14,- (ISBN 3-458-08655-2)

For the USA LoC-database tells:

            Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
    Generic Title: Sonaten und Partiten, violin, BWV 1001-1006
            Title: Sonaten und Partiten fur Violine allein : facsimile of
                    autograph / Johann Sebastian Bach ; Nachwort by Gunter
                    Hausswald ; with translation by K. Marie Stolba.
 Publication Info: New York : Da Capo Press, 1982.
Phys. Description: 83 p. of music ; 23 cm.
      Series Name: Da Capo Press music reprint series
            Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Frankfurt, West Germany :
                   Insel-Verlag, 1962. With new English translation of the
                   Nachwort.

Someone told me that the Phillips LP (Gideon Kremer) contains a 1:1
facsimile of the autograph. But here in Germany I could find that.

And for those who want to play either the sonatas & partitas or the
cello-suites the following book may be of interest. It's written in
german and english:

  Efrati, R Richard: Die Interpretation der Werke fuer Violine
    solo und fuer Violoncello solo von Johann Sebastian Bach. Dt.
    /Engl. 1979. 280 S., 800 Notenbeisp. 'Atlantis Musikbuch' Ln DM
    68,- (SFr 58,-) (ISBN 3-254-00014-5)

oder mit anderen Worten:

 Efrati, Richard R.
       Versuch einer Anleitung zur Ausfuehrung und zur
 Interpretation der Sonaten und Partiten fuer Violine solo und der
 Suiten fuer Violoncello solo von Johann Sebastian Bach = Treatise
 on the execution and interpretation of the sonatas and partitas
 for solo violin and the suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian
 Bach / Richard R. Efrati. -- Zuerich : Atlantis, c1979.
       280 p. ; 25 cm.
       Text in English and German.
       Bibliography: p. 271.
       Includes indexes.
       Dewey Class No.: 787.1/092/4
       1. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Sonaten und Partiten,
 violin, BWV 1001-1006. 2. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
 Suites, violoncello, BWV 1007-1012. 3. Violin music--
 Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) 4. Violoncello music--
 Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) I. Title: Treatise on
 the execution and interpretation of the sonatas and partitas for
 solo violin and the suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian
 Bach. II. Title.

Hope this hilft.

Werner
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