ABSTRACT
In the recent past there have been several publications concerning the history of the early music movement. Although it does not deal with the early music movement as such it provides succinct summaries of the recorded history of every single composition by Bach as well as a useful overview of performance matters. This chapter provides a chronological overview of events, concentrating on issues related to Bach research and performance in the context of the general course taken by the movement. It presents the material which is partly based on the publications but supplemented with more specific data relevant to the investigation at hand. The chapter is concerned primarily with the post-Second World War period, certain milestones in the earlier twentieth-century history of performance practice as a discipline are also recaptured.
