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...German defeat, shame and partition are visible everywhere, is finding cultural solace and renewed pride in its heroes and native sons. In 1983, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
Hailed as one of the grestest musical finds of the century, the preludes were first attributed to Bach last December by Harvard Music Department Chairman Christoph J. Wolff, who found them in the Yale Music Library among a collection of 18th-century manuscripts...
...preludes which were not in Bach's handwriting, had to be transcribed and corrected in preparation for their performance, said Melodee I. Wagen. Wolft's assistant in the Harvard Music Department...
Written sometime before 1710, the works are considered significant because they reveal much about Bach's early musical development, Wagen added...
...preludes will be performed at Harvard on April 18 as part of 4 special week long University festival commemorating Bach's 300th birthday...