I just bought a second of Bach's MAGNIFICAT in D, the Baerenreiter edition. I've been working for years with the Edition Peters edition, and I was *very* interested to see just how different these two editions are. Where Edition Peters is extremely detailed in providing tempo markings and dynamic markings, the Baerenreiter edition provides very few tempo markings, and no dynamic markings.
Given these are both good publishers, my question is this: who's right? Are the tempo and dynamic markings in the Edition Peters version Bach's own, or the editor's "suggestions"? Or was the Baerenreiter editor just lazy? The Baerenreiter states that its score is based on the Neue Bach-Ausgabe. There is no information in the Edition Peters score about its provenance.
I'm not even remotely a Bach expert, but I AM very curious about which of these scores I should be working with. Any experts out there want to weigh in?
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