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Leipzig Bach Archive acquires unknown Mendelssohn composition

The Bach Archive has acquired an original composition by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Photo: -/Sammlung Bach-Archiv Leipzig/dpa
The Bach Archive has acquired an original composition by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Photo: -/Sammlung Bach-Archiv Leipzig/dpa

An original composition by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy remained undiscovered for around 150 years. Now the Bach Archive has acquired it from a private collection.

The Bach Archive in Leipzig has acquired a long unknown original composition by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from a private collection. It is a piano part for Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin in E major, BWV 1006, composed by Mendelssohn in 1846, the archive announced. "I am delighted that a manuscript so important for the history of Bach's reception in the early 19th century has found a permanent home in the Bach Archive," said Peter Wollny, Director of the Bach Archive Leipzig. The composition was only discovered in the late 1990s in the archive of a London dealer and ended up in a private collection at an auction.

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