Description
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata in A major for Flute and Obbligato Harpsichord, BWV 1032, with a historically informed reconstruction of the missing music in the first movement. Reconstructed and edited by Michael Marissen. São Paulo: Instant Harmony, 2025.
Why another edition?
There are already several good published editions of Bach’s sonata. The “selling-point” of this new edition is that it offers, for the first time, a historically informed reconstruction of the 40 percent of the first movement that is now missing in the autograph manuscript.
An exaggerated claim?
Many editors and performers have provided satisfying musical material to fill the gap in Bach’s score, and often they have specifically referred to their results as a “reconstruction.” But all these editions offer only completions. None truly brings an appropriate “reconstruction” or restoration of what Bach’s original material could have been. This edition does so as far as is now possible, using ALL the clues in the manuscript for the first time.
So: play Bach’s masterpiece in an edition as close as possible to his original score….
