J.S. Bach. Scribal manuscript score of the Brandenburg Concerto no.5, Berlin, c.1840-1858

Johann Sebastian Bach

Scribal manuscript score of the Brandenburg Concerto no.5

entitled and inscribed on the upper wrapper "Concertato per il Cembalo: / Claviercembalo / 1. Flauto, il Violino: / Ed il Violoncello, Obligati, Del: Sigr: G: S Bach: / Barth in der Schießgasse No 18 Notenschreiber", notated in brown ink on two 8-stave systems per page, with numerous later pencil markings, including the realization of the continuo part in the slow movement, and also many corrections

50 pages, folio (34 x 27cm), 16-stave paper, original blue wrappers, [Berlin, c.1840-1858], light browning and damp-staining to wrappers; together with a set of performing parts for 'Violino Repien', 'Violino Prinzipale', 'Flauto', 'Viola', 'Violoncello', 'Continuo', with pencil annotations in the same hand as found in the score, 7, 10, 9, 7, 7, 7 pages in all, folio, no date

Formerly in one of the greatest nineteenth-century music collections, that of the Berlin pianist and teacher Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).

The upper year of the dating (1858) can be deduced from the year the evidently Berlin street name on the upper wrapper, Schießgasse, was renamed Keibelstraße. The copyist named on the upper wrapper ("Barth") is presumably the scribe of the manuscript.

We are grateful for the kind assistance of Prof. Peter Wollny in our cataloguing of this lot.