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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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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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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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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 16 books | 4 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: chorale settings, organ project, court organist, church cantata, chorale melody (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Anna Magdalena, Art of Fugue, Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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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!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 16
books:
- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo by Johann Sebastian Bach on 11 pages
- French Suites: Piano Solo by Johann Sebastian Bach on page 97, page 111, and page 187
- English Suites (Music Scores) by Sebastian Johann Bach on page 57, and page 82
- A General History of Music by Charles Burney in