Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst
Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst is a historical edition of music from Germany, covering the Baroque and Classical periods.
The edition comprises two series: the first appeared in sixty-five volumes between 1892 and 1931, and the second, which was subtitled Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern, in thirty-six volumes between 1900 and 1931. The first series was issued by a Prussian royal commission of celebrity musicians and musicologists in instalments through the music publishers Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig, and the second by the Society for the Publication of Monuments of Musical Art in Bavaria.
A parallel series of volumes on Austrian composers, Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, was begun in 1959, and as at 2015-10-25 is in progress at one hundred and fifteen volumes.
References to these editions in this article in common with general practice use the acronyms DdT, DTB, and DTO, and to the Münchener Digitalisierungs Zentrum Digitale Bibliothek with MDZ.
Between 1957 and 1961 the First Series was revised and re-issued by the publishers under the editorship of H. J. Moser again in sixty-five volumes.
In 1962 revision of the Second Series of DdT was begun. By 1970 three volumes had been revised. San Francisco Public Library lists volumes 34, and 36, with date 1962.
In 1967 the publication of a neue Folge of DdT : DBT with the same musical content was started by the Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte via Breitkopf & Härtel. The DdT was dropped and the new series entitled "Denkmaeler der Tonkunst in Bayern". The editors decided on volumes of musical scores, and book-format special volumes. As at 2015-10-25 twenty-four volumes of musical scores have been published, and two special volumes. Breitkopf & Härtel's catalogue refers.
The Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has published the 1892 DdT, and 1900 DBT, online.
Rationale
The genesis of DdT is indicated by the title page to Volume One: Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst herausgegeben durch eine von der königlich Preussischen Regierung berufene CommissionThe Kingdom of Prussia was ruled at its peak by Emperor William II, and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. After the resignation of the Chancellor in 1890, the Emperor also presided over the fall of the kingdom. The production of DdT began in 1892, and continued throughout the First World War until 1931 and nearly the start of the Third Reich : an example perhaps of ars longa, vita brevis. The life of DdT was largely independent of the fall of Prussia, and its significance was tempered by the changes in Europe after 1918, and after 1945. The re-evaluation of its contents in the period 1959 to 1970 may be an indication either of the lasting value of the works of older composers from a modern perspective, or of a tendency to retain nationalism in music in some degree. The philosophy of Musica Britannica may hold a similar place in England.
The value of these editions in drawing attention to music by composers who deserved recognition has been illustrated by Sir Jack Westrup.
Bismarck's thoroughness, and efficiency, were thus not limited to the Prussian Army, and the Prussian welfare state, but characteristically extended to the art of music: stepping from the particular of Bismarck's choice to the general of national identity, the expression of national identity became a characteristic throughout the wider continent of Europe during the period 1870 to 1914. For example, national feeling in Czechoslovakia, Russia, and England encouraged the fine art counterparts of folk art that achieved expression in the works of inter alia Smetana, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Holst, and Vaughan Williams.
Within this heady prevailing mixture of aspiration, purpose, and achievement, the foreword to the First Series explains the Commission's philosophy. Die Werke hervorragender älterer deutscher Tonmeister der Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft von neuem zugänglich zu machen, ist längst als eine Aufgabe unserer Zeit erkannt worden....
Translation.——To make accessible again the works of outstanding older German musical masters of art, and of the science of art, has long been realized as a responsibility of our times. The emergence of the collected editions of the works of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, HÄNDEL, SCHÜTZ, and others owes to this realization. Projects like Friedrich Chrysander's "Monuments of Musical Art", and the publications of the Society for Music Research, are wholly or at least in part dedicated to the same purpose in life.
Apart from the merit that these publications attract in themselves, they have at the same time the advantage of more clearly recognizing the difficulties that are considered by general agreement to have been overcome. Consideration of the difficulties suggests the desire for a new enterprise, which would complement the already existing volumes in print, would be compared with them, and at the same time be thought of as comprehensive, and limited: comprehensive, in that the aim of not only the full publication of the works of a single great master would be addressed; and limited, insofar as only compositions of German musicians of the XVI, XVII and XVIII century would be published.
The masters GLUCK and HAYDN may remain aüsser considered as total spending their compositions are great tasks to existing, the solution of which is only a matter of time otherwise scheduled no composer will be to exclude its Werke have a right to continue to live in the German people by historical and artistic importance. In the almost endless riches of such works but it is to call those musical masters the first publication of whom would be in prospect, because it requires preparatory work already long in progress:
Composers of sacred and secular vocal music: HANS LEO HASSLER, SAMUEL SCHEIDT, JOHANN HERMANN SCHEIN, ANDREAS HAMMERSCHMIDT, MELCHIOR FRANCK, ADAM KRIEGER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH, and JOHANN MICHAEL BACH.
Organ composers: the master of the North German organ school exclusively BUXTEHUDE; also: SAMUEL SCHEIDT, JOHANN PACHELBEL and JOHANN GOTTFRIED WALTHER.
Composers for Clavier and other instruments: JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER, JOHANN KRIEGER, JOHANN KUHNAU, JOHANN BERNHARD BACH and CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH. The Royal Prussian Ministry of Culture has conceived the attainment of such a plan for the publication of "Monuments of German musical art" headed one of num berufenen Commission and support the Publishing Act Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig envisaged. The present sample volume should serve to further illustrate of the company. The recording, which takes the company will prevail fir the follow-up and arrangement thereof.
Berlin May 1892.
Johann Christoph Bach was born in Arnstadt, and died in Eisenach. His compositions are regarded as the most important in the Bach family before Johann Sebastian Bach.
Glossary
German words and English translations with musical use in the context of DdT are given with possible interpretation below. Some words may lead to duplication of meaning.| German word | English translation | Possible interpretation |
| Band | volume, or tome | volume |
| eingeleitet | started, initiated, introduced, prefaced, or preluded | introduced |
| Folge | sequence, succession, sequel, edition, series, set, or suit | series |
| half | half; as, erster Hälfte, first half | - |
| Herausgabe | of books, etc. publication, issue | publication |
| herausgegeben | published, or edited | edited |
| Jahrgang | of newspapers annual set, volume | year |
| Lieferung | delivery, supply, parcel, lot, book trade number, part | instalment |
| Reihe | row, file, rank, line, series, succession, tier, set, or train | set |
| Teil, Theil | part, piece, portion, share, or section | part |
| veröffentlicht | made public, announced, or published | published |
List of volumes in ''Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst. Erste Folge''.
This listing is based upon visual inspection of the digital copies available at the| Volume | Title | Date |
| 1. Band | Samuel Scheidts Tabulatura Nova für Orgel und Clavier | 1892 |
| 2. Band | Hans Leo Hasslers Werke. Erster Band. Cantiones sacrae für 4 bis 12 Stimmen | 1894 |
| 3. Band | Franz Tunders Gesangswerke. Solocantaten und Chorwerke mit Instrumentalbegleitun | 1900 |
| 4. Band | Johann Kuhnaus Klavierwerke | 1901 |
| 5. Band | Johann Rudolph Ahles Ausgewählte Gesangswerke mit und ohne Begleitung von Instrumenten | 1901 |
| 6. Band | Matthias Weckmann und Christoph Bernhard. Solocantaten und Chorwerke mit Instrumentalbegleitung | 1901 |
| 7. Band | Hans Leo Hasslers Werke. Zweiter Band. Messen für 4 bis 8 Stimmen | 1902 |
| 8/9. Band | Ignaz Holzbauer. Günther von Schwarzburg : Oper in drei Akten | 1902 |
| 10. Band | Orchestermusik des XVII. Jahrhunderts. I. Journal du Printemps von Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer. II. Zodiacus von D. A. S. | 1902 |
| 11. Band | Dietrich Buxtehudes Instrumentalwerke. Sonaten für Violine, Gambe und Cembalo | 1903 |
| 12/13. Band | Arien von Heinrich Albert | 1904 |
| 14. Band | Dietrich Buxtehude. Abendmusiken und Kirchenkantaten | 1903 |
| 15. Band | Carl Heinrich Graun. Montezuma : Oper in drei Akten | 1904 |
| 16. Band | Melchior Franck und Valentin Haussmann. Ausgewählte Instrumentalwerke | 1904 |
| 17. Band | Johann Sebastiani und Johann Theile. Passionmusiken | 1904 |
| 18. Band | Sonate da camera von Johann Rosenmüller | 1904 |
| 19. Band | Arien von Adam Krieger | 1905 |
| 20. Band | Johann Adolph Hasse. La conversione di Sant’Agostino : Oratorio | 1905 |
| 21/22. Band | Gesammelte Werke von Friedr. Wilh. Zachow | 1905 |
| 23. Band | Ausgewählte Werke von Hieronymus Praetorius | 1905 |
| 24/25. Band | Hans Leo Hasslers Werke. Dritter Band. Sacri concentus für 4 bis 12 Stimmen | 1906 |
| 26/27. Band | Johann Gottfried Walther. Gesammelte Werke für Orgel | 1906 |
| 28. Band | Georg Philipp Telemann. Der Tag des Gerichts : Ein Singgedicht in vier Betrachtungen von Christian Wilhelm Alers. Ino : Kantate von Karl Wilhem Ramler | 1907 |
| 29/30. Band | Instrumentalkonzert deutscher Meister. J. G. Pissendem, J. A. Hasse, C. Ph. E. Bach, G. Ph. Telemann, Chr. Graupner, G. H. Stölzel, K. Fr. Hurlebusch | 1907 |
| 31. Band | Philippus Dulichius. Prima pars centuriae octonum et septenum vocum. Stetini, 1607 | 1907 |
| 32/33. Band | Nicolo Jommelli. Fetonte : Dramma per musica | 1907 |
| 34. Band | Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge für die gemeinen Schulen | 1908 |
| 35/36. Band | Sperontes. Singende Muse an der Pleisse | 1909 |
| 37/38. Band | Reinhard Keiser. Der hochmütige, gestürzte und wieder erhabene Croesus | 1912 |
| 39. Band | Ausgewählte Werke von Johann Schobert | 1909 |
| 40. Band | Ausgewählte Werke von Andreas Hammerschmidt | 1910 |
| 41. Band | Philippus Dulichius. Secunda pars centuriæ octonum et septenum vocum | 1911 |
| 42. Band | Ernst Bach. Sammlung auserlesener Fabeln. und Valentin Herbing. Musikalischer Versuch | 1910 |
| 43/44. Band | Ausgewählte Ballette Stuttgarter Meister aus der 2 Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Florian Deller und Johann Joseph Rudolph | 1913 |
| 45. Band | Heinrich Elmenhorsts Geistliche Lieder komponiert von Johann Wolfgang Franck, Georg Böhm und Peter Laurentius Wockenfuss | 1911 |
| 46/47. Band | Philipp Heinrich Erlebach. Harmonische Freude musikalischer Freunde. Erster und anderer Teil | 1914 |
| 48. Band | Johann Ernst Bach. Passionsoratorium | 1914 |
| 49/50. Band | Thüringische Motetten der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts | 1915 |
| 51/52. Band | Ausgewählte Kantaten von Christoph Graupner | 1926 |
| 53/54. Band | Johann Philipp Krieger. 21 ausgewählte Kirchenkompositionen | 1916 |
| 55. Band | Carlo Pallavicino. La Gerusalemme liberata | 1916 |
| 56. Band | Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. Die Kindheit Jesu. Die Auferweckung Lazarus | 1917 |
| 57. Band | Georg Philipp Telemann. Vierundzwanzig Oden. und Johann Valentin Görner. Sammlung neuer Oden und Lieder | 1917 |
| 58/59. Band | Sebastian Knüpfer, Johann Schelle, Johann Kuhnau. Ausgewählte Kirchenkantaten | 1918 |
| 60. Band | Antonio Lotti. Messen | 1930 |
| 61/62. Band | Georg Philipp Telemann. Tafelmusik | 1927 |
| 63. Band | Johann Pezel. Turmmusiken und Suiten | 1928 |
| 64. Band | Georg Benda. Der Jahrmarkt : Eine komische Oper | 1930 |
| 65. Band | Thomas Stoltzer. Sämtliche lateinische Hymnen und Psalmen | 1931 |
| Beihefte 1 | Christoph Graupner als Kirchenkomponist. Ausführungen zu Band LI/LII der Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst, Erste Folge, und Verzeichnis sämtlicher Kantaten Graupners von Friedrich Noack | 1926 |
| Beihefte II | G. Ph. Telemann. Musique de Table. Ausführungen zu Band LXI und LXII der Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst, Erste Folge von Max Seiffert | 1927 |
List of volumes in ''Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst. Zweiter Folge''.
Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst. Zweite Folge: Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern : Veröffentlicht durch die Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe von Denkmälern der Tonkunst in BayernFrom Volume Twenty-six the words "unter Leitung der Adolf Sandberger" were added to the description.