• Urtext from the “New Bach Edition”
• Preface (Ger/Eng) on the composition of the work and sources
• Includes notes on interpretation
• Edition without fingering also available (BA 5164)

“A mendicant woman from the Haynstrasse, aged 59 years, Anna Magdalena, née Wilckin, widow of Mr. Johann Sebastian Bach, cantor at the St. Thomas School” – thus reads the entry dated 29 February 1760 in the Leipzig "Ratsleichenbuch” (City Register of Deaths) for a woman whose name has become known through...