Weimarer Orgeltabulatur: Die frühesten Notenhandschriften Johann Sebastian Bachs sowie Abschriften seines Schülers Johann Martin Schubart. Mit Werken von Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Adam Reinken und Johann Pachelbel, and: Deutsche Orgel- und Claviermusik der Bach-Zeit: Werke in Erstausgaben = German Organ and Keyboard Music from Bach's Period: Collection of First Editions, and: 3ème symphonie, op. 28 (1911), and: Die grossen Partiten = The Large-scale Partitas (review)

Of these four new Bärenreiter organ publications, perhaps the most significant is the Weimarer Orgeltabulatur. The disastrous fire at the Anna Amalia Library at Weimar in 2004 saw most of the music collection perish along with the library's superb rococo interior. The following year a systematic search was begun by scholars from the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig for any traces of Bach's activity amongst the Weimar-related items in the library. In May 2005 the autograph of an unknown aria, "Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn," was discovered, and published that same year (in facsimile as Documenta musicologica, Reihe 2, vol. 33; and edited by Michael Maul as Bärenreiter BA 5246). Then in the summer of that year an even more important find was made, preserved amongst the manuscripts in the theological section. In a modern box were four fascicles containing five organ works written in tablature: a Reincken chorale fantasia, a fragment of a Buxtehude chorale fantasia, and three works by Pachelbel. The handwriting in two of these fascicles turned out to be that of the young J. S. Bach, while the other two fascicles were in the hand of a very early Bach pupil, Johann Martin Schubart. The importance of this discovery lies not in the works themselves—they are all known from other sources—but in the valuable clues and information the manuscripts provide about Bach's early biography, and the fact that...