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The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in
New Bach Society website
Johann Sebastian Bach Organisations based in Leipzig Music organisations based in Germany Arts organizations established in 1900 1900 establishments in Germany {{music-org-stub
The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard wo ...
. It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft
The German Bach-Gesellschaft (Bach Society) was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions. The collected works are known as the Bach-Gesellschaft-Ausg ...
, which between 1850 and 1900 produced a complete edition of Bach's works, publishing many pieces for the first time. On completion of these collected works (the ''Bach-Ausgabe''), the original Society dissolved itself.
The new Society approved three enduring projects:
* the annual edition of a ''Bach-Jahrbuch
The ''Bach-Jahrbuch'' ("Bach yearbook" or according to the publication's website "Bach Annals") is an annual publication related to the composer Bach.
It is published in German by the Neue Bachgesellschaft in Leipzig. It is the most respected publ ...
'' (Bach yearbook)
* biannual (today: annual) ''Bachfeste'' (Bach festivals). The venues of the Bachfest have mainly been in Germany, but the 2012 Festival had an international dimension, being held in Görlitz
Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and is the largest town in Upper Lus ...
-Zgorzelec
Zgorzelec (, german: link=no, Görlitz, szl, Gorlice, Upper Lusatian German dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', and ''Gerltsch'', hsb, Zhorjelc, dsb, Zgórjelc, cz, Zhořelec) is a town in southwestern Poland with 30,374 inhabitants (2019). It ...
on the German-Polish border German Polish or Polish German may refer to:
* German–Polish relations
* German minority in Poland
*Polish minority in Germany
Poles in Germany are the second largest Polish diaspora (''Polonia'') in the world and the biggest in Europe. Estima ...
.
* the founding of a Bach museum. In 1907 the Society opened the first museum dedicated to Bach at Eisenach
Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...
, the town where he was born. This Bachhaus is managed by the ''Bachhaus Eisenach gemeinnützige GmbH'', a registered charitable company, with the New Bach Society as its sole associate.
The Society has not been directly involved in publishing scores in the way that its predecessor was. However, in 1950 it recommended that the second complete edition of Bach's music be undertaken, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe
The New Bach Edition (NBE) (german: Neue Bach-Ausgabe; NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): New Edition of the Complete W ...
(NBA, in English: New Bach Edition). The project was a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, then West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...
, and Leipzig, then East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In t ...
, in order to stress that the common cultural heritage was indivisible.
References
External links
New Bach Society website
Johann Sebastian Bach Organisations based in Leipzig Music organisations based in Germany Arts organizations established in 1900 1900 establishments in Germany {{music-org-stub