Inventions, cemb, BWV 780, BWV 778, BWV 776, BWV 774, BWV 772, BWV 773, BWV 775, BWV 777, BWV 779, BWV 781 in B minor
Other title: Inventionen, Sinfonien
Manuscript copy US-NYp , Mus. Res. JOG 71-3
Scoring summary: cemb
Subject: Keyboard pieces, Inventions
Scoring: cemb
Catalog of works: 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781
Original Title: [title page:] XV Inventionen und XV Sinfonien | von | Joh. Seb. Bach. | in Handschrift seines Sohnes C. Ph. E. Bach. | Die Echtheit derselben bescheinigt und | beglaubigt hier durch | den Kgl. preußischen Musikdirektor Wilh. Rust | Doctor musices artianique liberatium magister, | Redakteur der Leipziger Bach-Ausgabe pp
Material:
  • Source type:
    Source type: Manuscript copy
    Content type: Notated music
    Material:
    Format, extent: score: 20f.
    Dimensions: 36,2 x 21,5 cm
Former owner:
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Incipits:
1.1.1; Inventio 1.; cemb; C
1.2.1; Inventio [2].; cemb; c
(?)
1.3.1; Inventio 3.; cemb; D
1.4.1; Inventio 4.; cemb; d
(+ bar line added)
1.5.1; Inventio 5.; cemb; E|b
1.6.1; Inventio 6.; cemb; E
1.7.1; Inventio 7.; cemb; e
1.8.1; Inventio 8.; cemb; F
1.9.1; Inventio 9.; cemb; f
(?)
1.10.1; Inventio 10.; cemb; G
1.11.1; Inventio 11.; cemb; g
1.12.1; Inventio 12.; cemb; A
1.13.1; Inventio 13.; cemb; a
1.14.1; Inventio 14.; cemb; B|b
1.15.1; Inventio 15.; cemb; b
1.16.1; Sinfonia 1.; cemb; C
1.17.1; Sinfonia 2.; cemb; c
1.18.1; Sinfonia 3.; cemb; D
1.19.1; Sinfonia 4.; cemb; d
1.20.1; Sinfonia 5.; cemb; E|b
1.21.1; Sinfonia 6.; cemb; E
1.22.1; Sinfonia 7.; cemb; e
1.23.1; Sinfonia 8.; cemb; F
1.24.1; Sinfonia 9.; cemb; f
1.25.1; Sinfonia 10.; cemb; G
1.26.1; Sinfonia 11.; cemb; g
1.27.1; Sinfonia 12.; cemb; A
1.28.1; Sinfonia 13.; cemb; a
1.29.1; Sinfonia 14.; cemb; B|b
1.30.1; Sinfonia 15.; cemb; b
Other: [Ascertained]
Other: [Ascertained]
Notes: On verso of title page: "Aufrichtige Anleitung / womit / Denen Liebhabern des Clavires eine deutliche / Art gezeigt wird, mit Zwey Stimmen rein Spie- / len zu lernen, anbey auch zugleich gute Inven- / tiones zu bekommen, sondern auch selbige gut / durchzuführen, am allermeisten aber eine can- / tabile Art im spielen zu erlangen, und darne- / ben einen starken Geschmack von der Compo- / sition zu überkommen, Anno 1723. / verfertiget / von / Johann Sebastian Bach, / Hochfürstl. Anhalt - / Cöthenscher Cappelmeister"
Outer margin, f.20v: "Mozart / [illegible]"
Manuscript was not written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach as claimed by Wilhelm Rust, but by a writer identified as Anonymous 404, who made another copy of the Inventions and Sinfonias, now in D Bs; see: HerzB 1984
RISM A/I and B references: A/I B 494, A/I B 495
Bibliographic reference: p.247-250
Library (siglum) shelfmark: Mus. Res. JOG 71-3
RISM ID no.: 101766
Last update: January 11, 2024