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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work

Johann Nikolaus Forkel

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  • Book language: English
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This is Johann Nikolaus Forkel's early biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, translated and annotated by Charles Sanford Terry. It surveys Bach's family, career, work as organist, clavier player, composer and teacher, and includes catalogues of his compositions and church cantatas. Listen for a foundational account of Bach's life and art.

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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach. About 1720. (From the picture by
Johann Jakob Ihle, in the Bach Museum, Eisenach).
Johann Sebastian Bach
His Life, Art and Work. Translated from the German of
Johann Nikolaus Forkel. With notes and appendices by
Charles Sanford Terry, Litt.D. Cantab.

Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry
Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York
1920
Contents
Introduction
FORKEL'S PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY OF BACH
Chapter II. THE CAREER OF BACH
CHAPTER IIA. BACH AT LEIPZIG, 1723-1750
CHAPTER III. BACH AS A CLAVIER PLAYER
CHAPTER IV. BACH THE ORGANIST
CHAPTER V. BACH THE COMPOSER
CHAPTER VI. BACH THE COMPOSER (continued)
CHAPTER VII. BACH AS A TEACHER
CHAPTER VIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
CHAPTER IX. BACH'S COMPOSITIONS
CHAPTER X. BACH'S MANUSCRIPTS
CHAPTER XI. THE GENIUS OF BACH
APPENDIX I. CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF BACH'S
COMPOSITIONS
APPENDIX II. THE CHURCH CANTATAS ARRANGED
CHRONOLOGICALLY

APPENDIX III. THE BACHGESELLSCHAFT EDITIONS OF
BACH'S WORKS
APPENDIX IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BACH LITERATURE
APPENDIX V. A COLLATION OF THE NOVELLO AND
PETERS EDITIONS OF THE ORGAN WORKS
APPENDIX VI. GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF BACH
Footnotes
Illustrations
Johann Sebastian Bach. About 1720. (From the picture by
Johann Jakob Ihle, in the Bach Museum, Eisenach).
Bach's Home at Eisenach
The Church and School of St. Thomas, Leipzig, in 1723.
Johann Sebastian Bach, circa 1746. From the picture by
Haussmann.
Divided Harmony, Bach treatment
Divided Harmony, conventional treatment
The Bach Statue at Eisenach
Johann Sebastian Bach. From the picture discovered by
Professor Fritz Volbach
The Bach Statue at Leipzig
Genealogy Table, p. 303
Genealogy Table, p. 304
Genealogy Table, p. 305
Genealogy Table, p. 306
Genealogy Table, p. 307
Genealogy Table, p. 308
Genealogy Table, p. 309
Genealogy Table, p. 310

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Contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Introduction
  4. FORKEL'S PREFACE
  5. CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY OF BACH
  6. Chapter II. THE CAREER OF BACH
  7. CHAPTER IIA.113 BACH AT LEIPZIG, 1723-1750
  8. CHAPTER III. BACH AS A CLAVIER PLAYER
  9. CHAPTER IV. BACH THE ORGANIST
  10. CHAPTER V. BACH THE COMPOSER
  11. CHAPTER VI. BACH THE COMPOSER (continued)
  12. CHAPTER VII. BACH AS A TEACHER
  13. CHAPTER VIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
  14. CHAPTER IX. BACH'S COMPOSITIONS
  15. CHAPTER X. BACH'S MANUSCRIPTS
  16. CHAPTER XI. THE GENIUS OF BACH
  17. APPENDIX I. CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF BACH'S COMPOSITIONS
  18. APPENDIX II. THE CHURCH CANTATAS ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY
  19. APPENDIX III. THE BACHGESELLSCHAFT EDITIONS OF BACH'S WORKS
  20. APPENDIX IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BACH LITERATURE
  21. APPENDIX V. A COLLATION OF THE NOVELLO AND PETERS EDITIONS OF THE ORGAN WORKS
  22. APPENDIX VI. GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF BACH
  23. Footnotes

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