Bach FAQ 59
Was Bach's Complete Musical Work Really Missing?..
Yes and no. You have to check my answer precisely..
No, the entire work had not been lost, as is often claimed. For about 80 years, however, no one in the public was interested in Bach’s music. No one wanted to hear it anymore, and no one wanted to play it anymore. That didn’t change until Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who admired Bach, gave the first performance of the St. Matthew Passion exactly 102 years after its premiere. That’s generally what people mean when they say Bach’s complete works were “lost” for roughly 80 years. For 80 years following Bach’s death..
However, one can also take the approximately 11,000 works as a basis. Those that, according to Professor Christoph Wolff, a Bach scholar and author, are believed to have existed, as he assumes. Of these more than 11,000 works, only 1,128 remain today. Seen this way, virtually the entire body of work by this exceptional composer would indeed have been lost, destroyed ... simply gone. Except for the roughly ten percent that we listen to with such enthusiasm today..
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