Like Shakespeare, J.S. Bach is known largely by his works. Peter Williams asks many questions in this examination of the man as well as the composer. What was Bach like as a youth, father, and, eventually, church elder? What music did he know and how did he compose and perform such an amazing amount? Ultimately, Williams questions the effects of unremitting acclaim on objective evaluations of J.S. Bach.
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"It keeps up a guard against excessive reverence, and it encourages readers not only to reconsider ideas about the composer but also to rehear his music." The New York Review of Books, Peter Williams, Mystery Man
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Bach, like Shakespeare, is known largely by his works, and only a few original documents convey any idea of his life and character. Interpreting the so-called evidence, Peter Williams asks many questions. What was Bach like as a young man, as a father, as an ageing church servant? What music did he know and how did he compose and perform such an amazing amount of music? In addition, he asks if our understanding of Bach has been hindered by the unremitting deference displayed towards him since his death.
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Johann Sebastian Bach belongs [sic] to a family in all of whose members equally a love for and skill in music seem, as a common gift, to have been imparted by nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chorale settings, organ project, court organist, church cantata, chorale melody, ensemble music, keyboard music, organ builder, two manuals, organ works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Magdalena, Art of Fugue, Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering, Maria Barbara, Good Friday, Prince Leopold, Gottfried Silbermann, Johann Christian, Prince Johann Ernst, Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas School, Werckmeister's Orgelprobe, Brandenburg Concertos, Christmas Oratorio, Duke of Weissenfels, Johann Gottfried Bernhard, Louis Marchand, Low Church, Roman Catholic, Georg Erdmann, Grosse Concert, Harmonische Seelenlust New!
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Johann Sebastian Bach belongs [sic] to a family in all of whose members equally a love for and skill in music seem, as a common gift, to have been imparted by nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chorale settings, organ project, court organist, church cantata, chorale melody, ensemble music, keyboard music, organ builder, two manuals, organ works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anna Magdalena, Art of Fugue, Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering, Maria Barbara, Good Friday, Prince Leopold, Gottfried Silbermann, Johann Christian, Prince Johann Ernst, Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas School, Werckmeister's Orgelprobe, Brandenburg Concertos, Christmas Oratorio, Duke of Weissenfels, Johann Gottfried Bernhard, Louis Marchand, Low Church, Roman Catholic, Georg Erdmann, Grosse Concert, Harmonische Seelenlust New!
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- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on 11 pages
- French Suites: Piano Solo by Johann Sebastian Bach on page 97, page 111, and page 187
- Englishche Suiten (Music Scores) by Johann Sebastian Bach on page 57, and page 82
- A General History of Music by Charles Burney in Back Matter
- Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory by Claude V. Palisca in Back Matter
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- Outlines of Music History by Clarence G. Hamilton on page 116
- A Complete History of Music: For Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading. With Portraits, Reproductions of Instruments and Musical Examples by Winston James Baltzell on page 272
- The Religious Faith of Great Men by Archer Wallace in Front Matter
- The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach by David Schulenberg in Back Matter
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