''The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach'' is a 48-volume edition of the music of J.C. Bach published by

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from 1984 to 1999. The general editor was the musicologist and J.C. Bach expert Ernest Warburton. Vol. 48 of the edition is a Thematic Catalog of this composer's work prepared by Warburton. One notable feature of the edition is that it includes material which the

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of Warburton in ''

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'' described as "drawn in Warburton's own elegant calligraphy." Rather than having scores set in musical type, much of the edition has been printed from scores transcribed by hand for the publication and then reproduced. It also includes some

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s to vocal works by J.C. Bach. Noted music scholar

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(best known for his completion of Mozart's ''Requiem'') also contributed to the edition.

Sources

Obituary of Ernest Warburton
(retrieved 28 Feb 2011 from archive.org).

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