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A NEWLY IDENTIFIED BACH CANTATA FRAGMENT IN A BEETHOVEN MANUSCRIPT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2017

BARRY COOPER
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Beethoven's sketch leaves are so numerous and at times so impenetrable that they are bound to throw up the occasional surprise when studied in detail. Around ten thousand such pages survive; they are generally difficult to decipher, and often more than one work appears on a single page. Nevertheless, few surprises will have been as unexpected as the identification of a fragment of a little-known Bach cantata amongst Beethoven's early sketches.

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Eighteenth-Century Music , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 111 - 116
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6 Information kindly supplied by John David Wilson, to whom I am most grateful. See the forthcoming book by Wilson, John D. and Reisinger, Elisabeth, with Riepe, Juliane, The Operatic Library of Elector Maximilian Franz: Catalogue of the Manuscript Sources (Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, 2017)Google Scholar, which will include an appendix of copyists.

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