Bach’s Chaconne and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 1178: A Lost Treasure Found
In 1992, musicologist Peter Wollny came across two dusty unattributed musical manuscripts in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. Wollny recalled, The handwriting of the score just fascinated me, and I had this vague feeling that these bits of paper could be interesting some day. So I made photocopies and created a file that I dragged around with me for 30 years. The two works were chaconnes for organ. Featuring variations …