ABSTRACT
Who was responsible for the Original Edition? Who planned it, outlined its nal form and brought it to print? Clearly, the rst planning was Johann Sebastian’s. Bach scholars are practically unanimous in agreeing that the sequence of pieces until Cp12 is the composer’s own and that Philipp Emanuel followed his father’s wishes at least to that point of the work. The rest of the cycle, however, does not provide a clear picture of its internal ordering, and there are still no absolute conclusions of this matter in the existing literature.
