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The Concordia Orgelbuchlein is a nice legible edition that conforms almost exactly (but not 100 percent) to the Ms. I would suggest it as a student edition but I feels that one has to look at the full text and variants of the chorales which most certainly is not included. One can get this online now with a little digging.

My opinion is that the NBA was never what it was cracked up to be, at least with regard to the organ works but generally speaking it's a good practical edition. There will always be variants, and no edition is likely to be truly definitive because of the nature of most of the source material, even the music published during Bach's lifetime.

I'm interested in the Leupold edition. It would be interesting to review the new Breitkopf edtion. I'm not really buying new editions of Bach, I have more music than I can learn in my span of years!

I feel that it's important to have variants and alternate forms of well known works  in full performing score for evaluation and, occasionally, performance.  I also feel that the tendency to affirm thoughtful speculation (as opposed to definitive information) about the authorship of various works by excluding them is simply wrong. In the process, J. L . Krebs typically becomes a better composer than he ever was and Bach is elevated to a god-like status, free of less successful musical excursions that are part of the mortal experience.

Cheers,

Carl Schwartz

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