BREITKOPF & HARTEL - 15131
Bach O Jesu Christ Meins Lebens Licht BWV 118
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Breitkopf & Hartel
Instrument:
Quantity:
Pickup available at Juilliard Store
Usually ready in 2 hours
Bach O Jesu Christ Meins Lebens Licht BWV 118
Juilliard Store
Pickup available, usually ready in 2 hours
144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States
The new edition of BWV 118 presents the work in the two different instrumental settings that are authenticated through the autograph scores: the earlier version with solely brass instruments, and the later one with mixed instruments. Both versions are printed consecutively. Of particular interest for an authentic performance are two Litui, which are called for in both versions. To this day it has been impossible to determine what instruments are meant here: high horns in B flat? Or trumpets? The work has more unanswered questions for us for example, the occasion for which the first version was written in ca. 1736/37, and the reason why the work was newly orchestrated after 1740.