"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.
| 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 |
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 ...