# New Bach Composition Discovered!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 10, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709 "2005-06-10T06:56:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/1 "2005-06-10T06:56:38Z")

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[Tres, cool, IMHO.](http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBH4JMLP9E.html)

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> Experts have discovered a previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach in a German library, a research foundation devoted to the composer said Wednesday.
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> Historians found the aria in May in the Anna Amalia Library in the eastern city of Weimar, the Bach Archiv foundation said on its Web site.
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> There was no doubt about the authenticity of the handwritten, two-page score, dated October 1713, Leipzig-based the foundation said. It was the first unknown vocal work by Bach to surface since the discovery of the single-movement cantata fragment “Bekennen will ich seinen Namen” (BWV 200) in 1935, the foundation said.
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> “The find is a well-rounded composition - not a major work, but a casual piece of superior quality,” the foundation said.

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**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/2 "2005-06-10T07:51:08Z")

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You can hear some of it [here](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4695336).

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/3 "2005-06-10T12:19:45Z")

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And if we could get all those Leipzigers to clean out their attics, who knows what we’d find?

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**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/4 "2005-06-10T12:24:26Z")

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I just shelled out $$$ for a 60-CD set of Bach’s cantatas–and in one fell swoop, it is rendered incomplete. Curses! (At least, I am getting the impression from news reports that it is a cantata, or part of one. Correct or incorrect?)

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/5 "2005-06-10T12:28:24Z")

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Does the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople know about this?

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/6 "2005-06-10T15:55:57Z")

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> [@Sophistry and Illusion](#):
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> (At least, I am getting the impression from news reports that it is a cantata, or part of one. Correct or incorrect?)

An aria setting of part of a poem also found among the birthday greetings so your cantata collection is safe. It was a real lucky break: the box they were in was removed from the library shortly before the library was gutted by fire, all because somebody wanted to sort out the duke’s birthday cards!

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-bach-composition-discovered/307709/7 "2005-06-10T20:20:20Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Does the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople know about this?

Yes, they found out about it PDQ.