Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach work location Berlin
Unpublished works
Many of C.P.E. Bach's compositions and original manuscripts were stored in the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin where Bach lived from 1738 to 1768.  This archive was packed during the Second World War and hidden to preserve it from Allied bombing, captured and sequestered by USSR forces in 1945, thus long believed lost or destroyed during the war.
The archive was discovered in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1999, returned to Berlin in 2001, and deposited in the Staatsbibliothek.  It contained 5,100 musical compositions, none ever printed for the public, including 500 by 12 different members of the Bach family.
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