J. S. Bach: Musicalisches Opfer
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 102
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
J. S. Bach: Musicalisches Opfer
Shelfmark
MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 102
Summary
J. S. Bach's Musikalisches Opfer (BWV 1079). In the hand of Eduard Rietz (1802-1832). Apparently copied from the 1747 edition (including the dedication). The 'Canones diversi' and the Sonata are not present, suggesting that it was copied from an incomplete copy. It was a gift from Rietz to Mendelssohn in 1826, as recorded in a list of the Mendelssohns' music library from the 1820s (see Rudolf Elvers and Peter Ward Jones, 'Das Musikalienverzeichnis von Fanny und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy', Mendelssohn-Studien, 8 (1993), p. 90. It corresponds to the 'Mus. Opfer, v. Ritz geschrieben' in Mendelssohn's 1844 list of his music (cf. MS. M. Deneke Mendelssohn c. 49, fols. 29-30, transcribed in vol. III of Catalogue of the Mendelssohn papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, compiled by Peter Ward Jones (Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1989), p. 286).
Date
1826
Language
German
Physical facet
Binding: Turquoise paper-covered boards.
Physical extent
21 Leaves
Custodial history
Presumably given by Margaret Deneke to Ernest Walker, whose stamped signature appears on fol. 2v.
Acquisition
Transferred from the Faculty of Music Library, 1995.
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Collection contents
The M. Deneke Mendelssohn Collection
Music by other composers owned by Mendelssohn
Johann Sebastian Bach
J. S. Bach: Musicalisches Opfer
