Misplaced items carried out for first time in 320 years

Previously unknown organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach have been offered and carried out in Germany for the primary time in 320 years.

Germany’s Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer referred to as the invention of the 2 items a “great moment for the world of music”.

They first caught the eye of the Peter Wollny, a researcher of the German composer and musician, in 1992 when he was cataloguing Bach manuscripts on the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.

The organ works – the Chaconne in D minor BWV 1178 and Chaconne in G minor BWV 1179 – had been undated and unsigned. Mr Wollny spent the following 30 years working to verify the identification of the items.

They had been carried out on the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, the place Bach is buried and the place he labored as a cantor for 27 years.

The two items had been performed by Dutch organist Ton Koopman, who stated he was proud to have the ability to carry out them for the primary time in 320 years.

He stated the items had been “of a very high quality” and can be “a great asset for organists today, as they are also suitable for smaller organs”.

They are believed to have been composed early in Bach’s profession, when he was working as an organ trainer within the city of Arnstadt in Thuringia.

Mr Wollny, who’s now the director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, stated they displayed a number of traits distinctive to the composer.

“Stylistically, the works also contain features that can be found in Bach’s works from this period, but not in those of any other composer,” he stated.

They are believed to have been written down in 1705 by one among Bach’s pupils, Salomon Günther John.

At a presentation of the works, Mr Wollny stated he was “99.99% sure that Bach had written the two pieces” they usually have now been added to the official catalogue of his works.