Four and Twenty Music is very proud to present this new edition. The Divertimento in G H642 (a Flute Quartet with Basso Continuo) is hitherto unpublished. The archive containing the manuscript in Berlin was hidden during the Second World War to protect it from allied bombing, sequestered by USSR forces in 1945, and was long thought to have been lost or destroyed.

The archive was discovered in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1999, returned to Berlin in 2001, and deposited in the Staatsbibliothek.

This edition has remained faithful to Bach’s manuscript with a few minor alterations for inconsistencies with articulations and dynamics. A realisation for the Basso has been included for keyboard and also guitar.