In the period following Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1750, apart from the publication of The Art of Fugue in the early 1750s, the only further publications prior to the 1790s were the settings of
Birnstiel's first volume (1765): title page.
Engraving of F.W. Marpurg by Berol after a drawing by Kauke, 1758
Pastel portrait of C.P.E. Bach, Hamburg, c 1780
Portrait of J.P. Kirnberger by C.F.R. Lisiewski, 1780
Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel
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Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel was an 18th-century German music publisher known for publishing two volumes of four-part chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach in the 1760s.
18th-century prints of Bach's four-part chorales
…P. E. Bach, who owned the original manuscripts, then set about the same task, producing two volumes in 1765 and 1769. Dissatisfied with his publisher Friedrich Wilhelm Birnstiel, he surrendered the manuscript rights in 1771 to Johann Kirnberger and his patron Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia. From 1777 onwards, Kirnberger…
Title page of Graun's Der Tod Jesu.
Vol. I (1760), p. 215 (28th letter, 1759, start)
Vol. I (1760), p. 220 (28th letter, 1759, end)
Vol. I (1760), title page of part IV (between pp. 380 and 381).