The music collection from the family estate of the Eisenach bank employee Manfred Gorke (1897–1956) comprises 700 objects relating to the history of music in Saxony and Thuringia from the 17th to 19th century and contains several original manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach. The collection came to the public in 1929, was purchased by the City of Leipzig in 1935 and has been kept in the Leipzig Bach Archive since 1952.
Manfred Gorke was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, but had lived in Eisenach since 1914 at the latest. He came into possession of the extensive music collection through his grandfather's inheritance. Among the most valuable pieces in his collection are several original manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach, including the Mühlhäuser Hochzeitsquodlibet BWV 524 (Go. S. 300), the fragmentary copy of a concerto by Tomaso Albinoni BWV Anh. 23 (Go. S. 301) and two partial autographs: both the transcription of the Violin Sonata BWV 1021 (Go. S. 3) made jointly by Bach and his wife Anna Magdalena and an instrumental concerto by the Italian Pietro Locatelli op. 1, No. 8 (Go. S. 4). Other manuscripts in Gorke's collection come from the immediate vicinity of the Leipzig churches and thus from Bach's extended sphere of activity. Among them are original manuscripts by his pupils Johann Christoph Altnickol, Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, Johann Philipp Kirnberger and Johann Tobias Krebs. The collection also includes the autograph chorale book by Johann Friedrich Doles (Cantor at St. Thomas 1756–1789) and a copy of the motets from »Florilegium portense« made by students of St. Thomas in the 1750s.
After negotiations with several music publishers for the exclusive publication rights to individual works, Gorke reached an agreement with the City of Leipzig in the spring of 1935 to purchase the collection and place it in the Public library. After the war, it became part of the holdings of the Music Library of the City of Leipzig, which was founded in 1954, but had already been in the Bach Archive since 1952 and remained there for permanent storage. When the Bach Archive was transformed into a foundation under civil law in 1998, the collection was transferred to its assets.
After the first cataloging of the collection in a two-volume catalog initiated by Gorke himself in the early 1930s (Go. S. 702), the first scholarly processing of the entire corpus was carried out by Hans-Joachim Schulze, who published a catalog of the Manfred Gorke Collection in 1977 (Bibliographische Veröffentlichungen der Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig, 8). As part of the Saxon state digitization programme of the SLUB Dresden, the collection was completely digitized and is available online (see Sachsen.digital).
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Among the most valuable pieces in his collection are several original manuscripts by Johann Sebastian Bach, including the Mühlhäuser Hochzeitsquodlibet BWV 524 (Go. S. 300), the fragmentary copy of a concerto by Tomaso Albinoni BWV Anh. 23 (Go. S. 301) and two partial autographs: both the transcription of the Violin Sonata BWV 1021 (Go. S. 3) made jointly by Bach and his wife Anna Magdalena and an instrumental concerto by the Italian Pietro Locatelli op. 1, No. 8 (Go. S. 4). Other manuscripts in Gorke's collection come from the immediate vicinity of the Leipzig churches and thus from Bach's extended sphere of activity. Among them are original manuscripts by his pupils Johann Christoph Altnickol, Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, Johann Philipp Kirnberger and Johann Tobias Krebs. The collection also includes the autograph chorale book by Johann Friedrich Doles (Cantor at St. Thomas 1756–1789) and a copy of the motets from »Florilegium portense« made by students of St. Thomas in the 1750s.