
The ninth series contains Addenda (7 volumes), and furthermore there is a Supplement of 9 volumes (Supplementbände): I. The edition contains in eight series over 100 volumes of scores (Notenbände), each Score (Partitur) volume complemented with a Critical Commentary (Kritischer Bericht) volume. The director in Göttingen, from 1962 to 1963, was Georg von Dadelsen. Initially the duration of the edition was estimated as 15 to 20 years, but the scientific work with the sources required much more time than anticipated. The publishers were Bärenreiter in Kassel, chosen in 1951 by the Federal Government, and from 1954 the Deutscher Verlag für Musik, a new publisher in Leipzig which was involved until the unification of Germany. The Bach Archive and the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute collaborated, their directors Werner Neumann and Alfred Dürr made the new edition their life's project. The Neue Bachgesellschaft recommended to pursue the project as a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, then West Germany, and Leipzig, then East Germany, in order to stress that the common cultural heritage was indivisible. Musicologists such as Friedrich Blume, Max Schneider, Friedrich Smend and Heinrich Besseler, and sponsors such as Bernhard Sprengel and Otto Benecke made the project possible, supported by the editor Karl Vötterle. In 1950, the commemorations of the bicentennial of Bach's death in Göttingen and Leipzig led to the initiative to publish his complete works in a critical scientific edition. Although the NBE is an urtext edition rather than a facsimile edition, it includes many facsimiles of Bach manuscripts. The significance of the NBE lies more in its incorporation of the latest scholarship. The second complete edition includes some discoveries made since 1900, but there are relatively few such scores. The first complete edition of Bach's music was published in the second half of the nineteenth century by the Bach Gesellschaft ( Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, BGA). When Bach died most of his work was unpublished. It is a historical-critical edition (German: historisch-kritische Ausgabe) of Bach's complete works by the Johann Sebastian Bach Institute (Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut) in Göttingen and the Bach Archive (Bach-Archiv) in Leipzig, The name is short for Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): New Edition of the Complete Works ( Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke). The New Bach Edition (NBE) ( German: Neue Bach-Ausgabe NBA), is the second complete edition of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, published by Bärenreiter.


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