Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
In 1802 the Göttingen music scholar Johann Nikolaus Forkel published the first book on Johann Sebastian Bach, written from what Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach had told him: the musical family, the life from Eisenach to the visit to Frederick the Great, Bach at the clavier and the organ, his harmony and fugue, his pupils and sons, his character and his works – the book that began the Bach revival. Newly transcribed from the first edition and checked against the Peters reprint of 1855, with the portrait, the eighteen music examples of the two plates identified by BWV number and linked to the text, and more than a hundred notes on persons and works. Edited by Bernhard Trebuch. Also available as an audiobook from Fra Bernardo. Reading sample: the preface and the first two chapters, the family and the life, with the notes.
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