Launched in 1995, Bach Perspectives has become the premier English-language serial book series dedicated to cutting-edge Bach scholarship. The University of Illinois Press now offers the first four volumes in open access editions available for free to all interested readers.

From 1727 to 1787, the Bach and the Breitkopf families enjoyed close professional ties forged by the growing trade between music composers and music printers. The second volume of Bach Perspectives examines the inventive and far-flung activities of the Breitkopf firm from the vantage point of its commerce with J. S. Bach and his relatives.

Contributors: Gregory G. Butler, Robert M. Cammarota, Peggy Daub, Andreas Glöckner, George R. Hill, Yoshitake Kobayashi, Ortrun Landmann, Ernest May, Hans-Joachim Schulze, George B. Stauffer, and Neal Zaslaw

| Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgment Abbreviations Introduction: The Breitkopf Family and Its Role in Eighteenth-Century Music Publishing by George B. Stauffer Part One. The Works of J.S. Bach and the Breitkopf Publishing Firm Connections between Breitkopf and J. S. Bach by Ernest May Church Cantatas in the Breitkopf Catalogs by Andreas Glöckner J. S. Bach's Vocal Works in the Breitkopf Nonthematic Catalogs of 1761 to 1836 by Hans-Joachim Schulze Part Two. The Breitkopf's Dealings with Members of the Bach and Mozart Families Breitkopf Attributions and Research on the Bach Family by Yoshitake Kobayashi The Publication Process and Audience for C. P. E. Bach's Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber by Peggy Daub The Breitkopf Firm's Relations with Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart by Neal Zaslaw Part Three. The Breitkopf Catalogs On Identification of Breitkopf's Manuscripts by Yoshitake Kobayashi Identifying Breitkopf House Copies Produced by the Firm's Own Scribes: A Preliminary Survey by George R. Hill The Magnificat Listings in the Early Breitkopf Nonthematic Catalogs by Robert M. Cammarota Part Four. The Breitkopf Family Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf: The Formative Years by Gregory G. Butler Breitkopf's Music Trade as Reflected in the Holdings of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek by Ortrun Landmann The Thomasschule and the Haus "zum Goldenen Bären": A Bach-Breitkopf Architectural Connection by George B. Stauffer Contributors General Index Index of Bach's Compositions |Praise for the series: "A handsomely produced, even luxurious, series of essay-collections."—Times Literary Supplement
|George B. Stauffer is the dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and a professor of music history at Rutgers University. He is the author of Bach: The Mass in B Minor: The Great Catholic Mass and the editor of The World of Baroque Music: New Perspectives.