Goldberg-Variationen, hpcd, BWV 988
Manuscript copy US-NH , Misc. Ms. 338
Scoring summary: hpcd
Subject: Variations
Catalog of works: BWV 988
Original Title: [t.p.:] CLAVIER-UBUNG. | bestehend | in einer | ARIA, | mit verschiedenen Veränderungen | vors Clavicymbal | mit 2 Manualen | Denen Liebhabern zur Gemüths | Ergoetzung verfertiget | von | Johann Sebastian Bach | Königl. Pohl. u. Choeurfürst Saechs | Hoff-Compositeur, Capell-Meister, | und | Directore, Chori Musici, | In Leipzig.
Material description:
  • Source type
    Source type: Manuscript copy
    Content type: Notated music
    Date
    1726-1775 (18.me)
    Material
    Format, extent: score: 50p.
    Binding note
    Binding note: Bound and sewn.
Incipits:
1.1.1; Aria.; hpcd; G
Scoring: hpcd
Notes: Contemporary red papered boards with green spine.
(Label on cover, in ink:) Originale / von / Johann Christian Kittel / (Organist in Erfürt / (Schüler des gest. J. Seb. Bach
(Signature on t.p.:) Schicht
T.p. and calligraphy modeled closely after the 1742 ed.
Unpaginated.
4 blank pages at end.
This ms. not listed in Schmieder or in Neue Bach Ausgabe, Kritische Bericht (V/2).
Library (siglum) shelfmark: US-NH Misc. Ms. 338
RISM ID no.: 900002223
Last update: October 16, 2022