J. S. Bach Cantata BWV 5, “Wo soll ich fliehen hin?”
From the Estate of Joseph Joachim
Autograph full score. Written in brown ink on systems of two to ten staves. Headed (f. 3r) `J[esu]. J[uva]. Do[m]i[ni]ca 19 post Trinit. Wo soll ich fliehen hin? Concerto’. With revisions throughout also in Bach’s hand (listed in detail in Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe Sämtlicher Werke (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1954- ), I/24, Kritischer Bericht, pp. 128-136), apparently made for a later performance.
Ownership: British Library
Provenance:
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach at the composer’s death; Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor (d. 1847), Berlin; Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff; given by the last by 1888 to Joseph Joachim; purchased for Heyer Collection, Cologne at auction by firm of C.G. Boerner, [Leipzig], 8 and 9 May 1908 (all from Neue Bach-Ausgabe, I/24, Kritischer Bericht, ed. Matthias Wendt (Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag, 1991)); purchased by Zweig at third Heyer sale, Henrici, Berlin, 29 Sept. 1927 (Zweig’s record card, Add. MS 73167, f.1, which includes a printed extract from the Henrici sale cat.); British Library, Loan 65.1 from 1975 to 1986.
C. G. Boerner, Auktions-Institut, Kunst- und Buchantiquariat, Katalog einer kostbaren Autographen-Sammlung aus Wiener Privatbesitz: wertvolle Autographen und Manuskripte aus dem Nachlass von Josef Joachim, Philipp Spitta, Hedwig von Holstein ; Versteigerung 8. u. 9. Mai 1908 (Katalog Nr. 92), Leipzig: 1908.