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Johann Sebastian Bach

Suite
pour le Luth
BWV 995

Guitar edition in memoriam


Werner Icking (26.8.1943 8.2.2001)

Notes on this edition


This edition of the BWV 995 Lute Suite was conceived as a performers edition and should not be taken for an Urtext, though
some notational practices were adopted to distinguish between original notation and editorial additions. Thus solid slurs
and ornaments not printed in brackets are Bachs, while dotted slurs and ornaments in brackets are editorial. Dotted slurs
may indicate either technical slurs (ligados) or interpretative slurring across two strings.
Where the ambit of the guitar or the exigencies of the fretboard necessitate the octave transposition of individual bass notes
or whole bass lines, this has been done silently. However, where individual notes in the middle voice have been omitted
for reasons of playability or interpretative licence, the passages in question have been flagged with the symbol [*] and the
original text appears at the end of the edition.

Acknowledgements
This edition was set in MusixTEX version T.102. On the level of the typesetting, it owes its existence in no inconsiderable part
to the many people on the TEX-Music mailing list (and its predecessor, MuTEX) who responded to online queries with help
and advice. In particular, my sincere thanks goes to Christian Mondrup and Rainer Dunker for their invaluable assistance
in persuading MusixTEX to produce guitar fingering instructions.
But the finished edition is dedicated to Werner Icking because he remains the chief reason I was able to typeset a work of
this complexity at all. From the moment I first began to experiment with MusixTEX, Werners patience and helpfulness in
troubleshooting source files and providing explanations and instructions via e-mail were nothing short of priceless. Even
during the typesetting of this edition, a year after his death, I frequently found myself searching through the mail archives
of my correspondence with him for the half-remembered solution to some recurrent problem. Without Werner I could not
have begun this edition, much less finished it. His passing leaves me the poorer for a teacher and a friend.
On the level of the music, all my thanks is due to my teacher, Mara Isabel Siewers, during and between whose lessons
this guitar edition gradually took shape and who generously consented to my making it freely available in the Werner
Icking Archive. Much of the fingering is hers outright, the rest has at least her blessing, and the whole bears her stamp so
strongly and to such great benefit that all credit for the musical aspects of this edition is due to her alone. All errors and
inelegancies, of course, remain wholly mine, whether musical or typographical.
Eva Jaksch
8.2.2002
ej@nextra.at

Revision notes
10.04.2002: Minor typographical errors in the fingering were corrected.
15.03.2004: PDF newly generated using slur font bugfix and pdftex to eliminate display problems in some versions of Adobe
Acrobat Reader and decrease file size.

Suite pour le Luth


BWV 995
Guitar edition in memoriam Werner Icking (26.8.1943 8.2.2001)

J. S. Bach
Edited for guitar by Eva Jaksch

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Editorial changes
Prelude
Bars 42 & 62:
Original:

This edition:

44
G

Allemande
Bar 35:
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Original:
tr

4`

1 4 4 ` )

G
8

i mp a i mp

Courante
Bar 18:
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Original:

tr

( `

i mp a i mp

( 1 4 2
4 ` )

( `

Gigue
Bar 56:
Original:
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G `

8
4

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