The Neue Bach-Ausgabe (in English, New Bach Edition) is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter. Its first volumes appeared in 1954 and, when fully complete, it is projected to extend over more than 100 volumes. It is the successor to the first complete edition of Bach's music published in the second half of the nineteenth century by the Bach Gesellschaft. The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer Bach redirects here. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bach-Gesellschaft was a society formed in 1850 for the express purpose of publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach without editorial additions. ...

The completed Neue Bach-Ausgabe will consist of the following series:

I. Cantatas (46 volumes)

II. Masses, Passions, Oratorios (9 volumes)

III. Motets, Chorales, Lieder (4 volumes)

IV. Organ Works (9 volumes)

V. Keyboard and Lute Works (14 volumes)

VI. Chamber Music (5 volumes)

VII. Orchestral Works (7 volumes)

VIII. Canons, Musical Offering, Art of Fugue (2 volumes)

IX. Addenda (approximately 7 volumes)

Supplement, Bach Documents (5 volumes)

Source

• Bärenreiter's page on the Neue Bach-Ausgabe and a listing of the completed volumes.

Further Information

• The Neue Bach-Ausgabe page at the website of the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute, Göttingen (in German).