"Wollny said Bach was about 18 years of age when he wrote the works, handwritten copies of which were found by Wollny in the Royal Library of Belgium in the early 1990s. Wollny's research led him to establish that the copies were made by a little-known pupil of Bach in around 1705. The works exhibited traits "found in Bach's compositions at that time, but in no other composer's work," he said, adding that his confidence in the attribution is now "99.99%.""
"German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer called the discovery that Bach had written the works "a momentous occasion for the world of music" and described Wollny's work as "almost detective-like in its meticulous detail." The two works, each with a duration of around 14 minutes, were performed on Monday by renowned Dutch organist Ton Koopman in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach served as musical director, or Thomascantor, from 1723 till 1750."
Two organ chaconnes in D minor and G minor have been definitively attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Archive in Leipzig. Musicologist Peter Wollny identified handwritten copies in the Royal Library of Belgium and dated the copies to around 1705, linking them to a little-known pupil of Bach. Wollny concluded Bach was about 18 when he composed the pieces and noted musical traits unique to Bach's compositions of that period. Each chaconne lasts about 14 minutes. The works were performed at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig by organist Ton Koopman.
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