<p>In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Kothen married the court's Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As his second wife she married into a young family with four children, and a busy household filled with music. The music book that Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his new wife Anna Magdalena in 1722, and replaced more lavishly in 1725, treats us to a tantalizing glimpse inside this unique family, allowing us to sit beside Bach as a composer, teacher, husband and father. Over the years, these notebooks became a place for the family to share instructional exercises, favourite pieces - by Bach and other composers - to play or sing, early composition efforts from the children, and first versions of some of Bach's more ambitious keyboard works.</p><p>What is usually presented as 'the' Anna Magdalena Notebook is a set of excerpts from the 1725 collection. The scholarship that informed the New Bach Edition in 1957 has been greatly developed and expanded since then.</p><p>Now, for the first time, Edition Peters presents a new Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach.</p><p> • Contains all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks together in one volume, in the original landscape format<br> • Edited by pre-eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, Harvard Professor and former Director of the Leipzig Bach Archive<br> • Represents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists<br> • Extensive preface, detailed critical commentary, and beautifully engraved notation<br> • Hardcover clothbound edition with gold embossing<br> • Printed in Kothen and bound in Leipzig - the home of Bach and the home of Edition Peters - this cutting-edge, premium modern edition's journey to your library retraces the Bach family's own move from the princely town to the city</p><p>This premium edition offers a truly best-in-class publication.</p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2etrqqND1U4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oeFTsHB-Ckk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
