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Johann Sebastian Bach: A Biography
1928. This work is a record of Johann Sebastian Bach's career, not a critical appreciation of his music. His personality has been so buried under the towering pyramid of his manuscript that, for most of us, he is but faintly visible on a background of the Bachgesellschaft folios. family; school; apprenticeship; young organist; Weimar; Cothen; Das jetzt florirende Leipzig; director musices; battle of the prefects; last years.
280 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
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April 17, 2025
A fantastic insight into J S Bach - the man, rather than just the music. The very old edition was from Sussex University Library. I couldn’t give 5 stars as there were too many long quotations or letters in Latin and German (and French), with no translation at all. Clearly readers in the 1930s had better language skills than me, and didn’t need them!
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