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 publication for international Bach research.

The Bach-Jahrbuch contains contributions of notable Bach scholars related to recent research of Bach and his family. It also provides a Bach bibliography. Begun in 1904, it is the oldest periodical dedicated to one composer.

The first editor was the musicologist Arnold Schering from 1904. The present editor is Peter Wollny.

Editors

Arnold Schering (1904–1939)
Max Schneider (1940–1952)
Alfred Dürr and Werner Neumann (1953–1974)
Hans-Joachim Schulze and Christoph Wolff (1975–2005)
Peter Wollny (from 2005)

External links

v t e Bach publications
Music / lyrics	Printed during the composer's lifetime: cantata Gott ist mein König (1708); Clavier-Übung I (1726–1730; 1731); Picander's 1728–29 cycle of cantata librettos; Clavier-Übung II (1735); Clavier-Übung III (1739); Goldberg Variations (1741); Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" (1747); The Musical Offering (1747); Schübler Chorales (1748) After 1750: The Art of Fugue (1751); Four-part chorales (1765–1787); Bach-Gesellschaft edition (1851-1899); New Bach Edition (1954–2007)
Biography / scholarship	Nekrolog (1754) Forkel's Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke (1802) Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach (Vol. I: 1873; Vol. II: 1880) Bach-Jahrbuch (1904–...) Schmieder's Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (1950; ²1990; ^2a1998) Bach Digital (2010–...)
Bach Gesellschaft Neue Bachgesellschaft Bach Archive Johann Sebastian Bach Institute