The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents

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"Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma

Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the ...

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Overview

"Just reading these documents brings this great composer to life in a most exciting and vivid way. I love this book!" —Yo-Yo Ma

Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393319569
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 10/28/1999
  • Edition description: Revised and enlarged
  • Pages: 608
  • Sales rank: 591,113
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Christoph Wolff, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the Adams University Professor at Harvard University and one of the world’s foremost experts on Bach and Mozart. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to The New Bach Reader
Preface to the First Edition of The Bach Reader 1945
Bibliographical Abbreviations
Conspectus of Parts I-VII
Chronology
Pt. I Johann Sebastian Bach: A Portrait in Outline 1
Pt. II Bach's Life in His Own Writings and Other Documents 29
Pt. III Early Biographical Documents on Bach 279
Pt. IV Bach as Viewed by His Contemporaries 309
Pt. V Bach in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 355
Pt. VI Forkel's Biography of Bach 1802/1820 415
Pt. VII Bach in the Romantic Era 483
App Money and Living Costs in Bach's Time 527
Bibliography 531
Index 533
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