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The new Bach reader : a life of Johann Sebastian Bach in letters and documents / edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel ; revised and enlarged by Christoph Wolff.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B1 D24 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian.
- Composers--Germany--Biography.
- Composers.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- liv, 551 pages : illustrations, maps, music, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.
- Summary:
- Gathered in this volume are all the letters, reports, testimonials, complaints, thank-you notes, and other writings of J. S. Bach, together with a generous helping of performance and payment inventories, town council proceedings, court and archival records, letters of appointment, and other papers that document the fabric of the composer's daily life. Here, in English translations that preserve the full flavor of the originals, we encounter more than four hundred items. The book also presents a complete translation of J. N. Forkel's landmark 1802 biography, On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Genius, and Works; a thorough chronology of events in the composer's life and career; a detailed genealogy and family tree that Bach himself prepared; an extensive obituary written by C. P. E. Bach and J. F. Agricola; facsimiles of a dozen music manuscripts, including working drafts; Romantic-era views of Bach; and a wealth of other materials.
- Notes:
- Rev. and enl. ed. of: The Bach reader. Rev. ed. 1966.
- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-532) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393045587
- OCLC:
- 37801400
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