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Mendelssohn's manuscript: A treasure for the Bach Archive Leipzig!
The Bach Archive Leipzig acquires an important Mendelssohn manuscript that enriches the reception of Bach in the 19th century.
Mendelssohn's manuscript: A treasure for the Bach Archive Leipzig!
A sensational coup for the Bach Archive Leipzig! In an exciting announcement, it has been announced that the archive has acquired a valuable manuscript by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) from a private collection. This remarkable discovery is a piano part that Mendelssohn composed in 1846 for Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin in E major, BWV 1006. The Gewandhaus bandmaster at the time, Mendelssohn, had written the piece for his friend, the violin virtuoso Ferdinand David (1810-1873). A true jewel of music history that now finds its place in Leipzig!
Markus Zepf, research assistant at the Bach Archive, said that the purchase price was in the mid-five-figure range. The manuscript is now being digitized and restorers will take care of the older cracks to restore the valuable document to its new glory. A truly significant step in preserving musical history!
A reason for joy
Peter Wollny, the director of the Bach Archive Leipzig, expressed his enthusiasm about the acquisition: “I am very pleased that a manuscript so important for the history of Bach reception in the early 19th century has found its permanent home in the Bach Archive.” The purchase was made possible by the entrepreneur and art collector Arend Oetker, who is also spokesman for the board of trustees of the Bach Archive Leipzig Foundation. A real stroke of luck for the city of Leipzig!
The three-page manuscript was only rediscovered 150 years after its creation in the 1990s in a dealer's London archive and then found its way into a private collection at auction. Now this important piece of music history returns to Leipzig, where it can be properly appreciated!