FRIEDRICH SMEND'S EDITION OF THE B-MINOR MASS BY J. S. BACH Author(s): Georg von Dadelsen, James A. Brokaw and II Source: Bach, Vol. 20, No. 2 (SUMMER, 1989), pp. 49-74 Published by: Riemenschneider Bach Institute Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41640324 Accessed: 17-08-2016 20:28 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Riemenschneider Bach Institute is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Bach This content downloaded from 140.182.176.13 on Wed, 17 Aug 2016 20:28:13 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms FRIEDRICH SMEND'S EDITION OF THE B-MINOR MASS BY J. S. BACH Georg von Dadelsen Translated by James A. Brokaw, II Only rarely had a musicological study been awaited with such interest as Friedrich Smend's edition of the Mass in B Minor in the Neue Bach-Ausgabe. The call for a new edition of Bach's works would have been justified by this effort if it had merely represented the culmination of two and one-half decades of continuous research, whose first, far-reaching results the editor published in the 1937 Bach-Jahrbuch } But there was more: the rich significance of this work and the well-known scholarship of its editor seemed to ensure that crucial issues in recent Bach scholarship would be dealt with.