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Johann Bach RARE 18thC Complete Choral Songs 4Vol

Johann Sebastian Bachs Vierstimmige Choralgesange. Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopp, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787. Four parts in 1 vol. 4to, contemporary bindings, modern brown morocco back & label; generally light edge wear. With 4 title pages. Scattered foxing, title page of first part, first 2 signatures & several leaves moderately foxed & browned. First authorized complete edition of Bach's Choral Songs. With Foreword by C.P. E. Bach. A rare 18th Century Bach publication, one of only nine works by J.S. Bach to reach print before 1802. An incomplete & often spurious edition of the Chorals was published in 1765 and 1766. In his foreword to this edition, containing 371 chorals, C.P.E. Bach states, "This collection of chorals has been looked through once again by me with great care after the earlier edition, and cleansed of the mistakes that had crept into it... In this new printing, the spurious chorals... have been omitted,..." [translated from the German]. Ink stamp of the Bach collector Otto Frommel on front free end paper & the signature of an early member of Frommel's musical family on part 1 title page.

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