Neumeister Chorales (BWV 1090–1120) Part 1 The Neumeister Collection is a manuscript compilation of chorale preludes for organ assembled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1757–1840) after 1790. It has been suggested that the collection may have been copied from a single source, possibly a Bach family album put together in Johann Sebastian Bachs early years. The five works by Neumeisters own music teacher, Georg Andreas Sorge, were a later addition. Some time after 1807 the manuscript passed to Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846), whose library was bought by Lowell Mason in 1852. After Masons death in 1873, his collection was acquired by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. There the Neumeister volume lay as manuscript LM 4708 until it was rediscovered early in 1984 by musicologists Christoph Wolff (Harvard) and Hans-Joachim Schulze (de) (Bach-Archiv Leipzig) and librarian Harold E. Samuel (Yale). After satisfying themselves that the manuscript was genuine, they announced the discovery in December 1984. Their conclusions were confirmed in January 1985 by German organist Wilhelm Krumbach (de) (1937–2005), who had been working on the same material independently, and with a fatal lack of urgency, since 1981. Wolff freely acknowledged that he brought his announcement forward when he learned that Krumbach was in the field. Krumbach was unhappy with the way things turned out. The collection was published by Professor Wolff in 1985–1986, both in facsimile and as part of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe youtube/watch?v=OsbeTbjDUB4
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