Subject: Buxtehude and Pachelbel

From: AJN <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:12:07 -0500 (CDT)

Hi, Sterling!

   You were asking about the Buxtehude Suite in E minor (BuxWV 236)

   recorded by Walter Gerwig around 1954. In his recordings he invariably
   used

   modern printed editions in pitch notation.  In this case most likely Bo
   Lundgren's

   edition (see below).  There is confusion because Gerwig transposed the
   suite from E minor

   to  C minor, and does not provide the BuxWV number.

   The various scores, tablatures, etc., are listed below.

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   The Pachelbel Suite in F sharp minor provides additional confusion.
   One

   might even suggest a scam by an unscrupulous antiquarian dealer, who

   represented the manuscript as an autograph of Johann Pachelbel
   (1653-1706),

   copied in Nurnberg (where he worked from 1695 until his death)--hence
   the

   "Autogr" shelf number.  The dealer's statement in writing appears with
   the

   manuscripts.

   I examined the manuscriprt in person some years ago.

   The bifolio gatherings had the remains of glue used by the bookbinder

   to attach the paper to the spine.  That is, the pages had been gathered
   from a disbound

   volume, to make many easily sold inexpensive fascicles. To be precise
   from the disbound

   manuscripts from the Harrach palace in Rohrau, mostly now in the

   New York Public Library (JOG 72-29). Some of those also have remainders
   of

   binder's glue on the fold. Those separated gatherings include pieces by
   the same copyist,

   as Marcus Lutz has pointed out.

   Bob Spencer also owned some separated gatherings from the Harrach
   manuscript.

   And others await discovery.

   That manuscript dates from the mid-eighteenth century, suggesting the
   composer

   of Ms autogr 2353b&a is more likely Johann's son, Wilhelm Hieronymus
   Pachelbel

   (1686-1764).  Probably not the other son, Charles Theodore Pachelbel
   (1690-1750),

   who resided in Boston before settling in South Carolina.<g>  [sorry for
   the plug.]

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   Citations:

   Buxtehude, Dietrich, 1637-1707.

   Vier Suiten fA 1/4r Clavichord oder Lauten /Diderich Buxtehude ;

   aus der Tabulatur A 1/4bertragen und hrsg. von Bo Lundgren.

   KA,benhavn : EngstrA,m & SA,dring ; New York : C. F. Peters, [pref.
   1954]

   Contains suites in C (BuxWV 231), in F (BuxWV 238),

   in em (BuxWV 236), in F (BuxWV 239) edited from Uppsala,

   Universitetsbiblioteket, Ihre Ms, fols. 17-41 (keyboard tablature for
   clavier).

   Facsimile and grandstaff transcription from the Ryge MS,

   Copenhagen, Det Konglige Bibliotek, Mu6806.1399.

   [1]http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Buxtehude,_Dietrich

   scroll down to Suite in E minor

   Suite BuxWV 236 [in E minor in French lute tablature]
   Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude; (arr. Wilfred Foxe)
   Publisher: [Luebeck] : Tree Edition, (c)2006.

   Title: The Baroque lute.
   Lutenist Walter Gerwig;

   Publisher: Nonesuch Records H 71229. [1969]

   --J. S. Bach BWV 995 Suite in G minor

   --D. Buxtehude Suite (BuxWV 236, performed in c minor)

   --Pachelbel, Suite in f# minor

   LP is Online: [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTX0MycryIA

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   Pachelbel:

   D-Nst (Stadtbibliothek!!) Ms autogr 2353b&a: Suite by "Pachelbel"

   in F# minor and pieces in Bb and C.

   On line facsimile

   [3]https://www.scribd.com/doc/143583318/D-Nst-Ms-2353-a-b-Pachelbel

References

   1. http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Buxtehude,_Dietrich
   2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTX0MycryIA
   3. https://www.scribd.com/doc/143583318/D-Nst-Ms-2353-a-b-Pachelbel