Research on Bachs Autograph of WTC II

A Short Bibliography

  1. Frederick Westlake: "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier" In: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. G. Grove (London, 1893), vol. iv, 482-485
  2. Ebenezer Prout: "The Autograph of Bach's 'Wohltemperirtes Clavier'" Monthly Musical Record, xxvi/303-304 (1896) 49-52; 73-76
  3. Orlando Morgan: J. S. Bach: Wohltemperirtes Clavier. The Forty-Eight Preludes & Fugues. (London: Edwin Ashdown, preface dated 1926)
  4. Walter Emery: "The London Autograph of 'The Forty-Eight'" Music & Letters, xxxiv (1953) 106-123
  5. Werner Breckoff: Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des zeiten Wohltemperierten Claviers. diss. (Tübingen, 1965)
  6. Don Franklin and Stephen Daw: "Introduction" in: Johann Sebastian Bach. Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II: Facsimile of the autograph manuscript in the British Library Add. MS 35 021 (London, 1980) v-vii
  7. Walther Dehnhard: "Critical Notes", in: Johann Sebastian Bach. Das Wohltemperierte Klavier II. Wienner Urtext edition (Vienna; Mainz: Schott / Universal Edition, 1983) xx-xxxii
  8. George Stauffer: "Bach as reviser of his own keyboard works". Early Music (May, 1985) 185-197
  9. James Brokaw: Techniques of Expansion in The Preludes and Fugues of J. S. Bach. diss. (Chicago, 1985)
  10. Yoshitake Kobayashi: "Zur Chronologie der Spätwerke Johann Sebastian Bachs Kompositions- und Aufführungstätigkeit von 1736 bis 1750". Bach Jahrbuch lxxiv (1988) 7-72
  11. James Brokaw: "The genesis of the Prelude in C Major, BWV 870" In: Bach Studies, ed. by D. Franklin. (CUP, 1989), 225-239
  12. Don Franklin: "Reconstructing the Urpartitur for WTC II: a study of the 'London autograph'" as above 240-278
  13. Yo Tomita: J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II. diss. (Leeds, 1990)
  14. Richard Jones: "Stages in the development of Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Clavier II'" The Musical Times, cxxxii/1783 (Sept., 1991) 441-446
  15. Richard Jones: "Further Observation on the development of 'The Well-Tempered Clavier II'" The Musical Times, cxxxii/1786 (Dec., 1991)
  16. Yo Tomita: J. S. Bach's 'Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II': A Critical Commentary, vol. 1: Autograph Manuscripts (Leeds, 1993)
  17. Richard Jones: Associated Board edition of WTC II (1994)
  18. Yo Tomita: J. S. Bach's 'Das Wohltemperierte Clavier II': A Critical Commentary, vol.2: All Extant Manuscripts (Leeds, 1995)
  19. Alfred Dürr: Neue Bach Ausgabe. Kritischer Bericht. V/6ii (1996)

Forthcoming work:-

(c) Yo Tomita, September 1996