5/30/2023 0 Comments The Bach Reader by Hans T. David![]() ![]() Matthew Passion, and of the fuller understanding of twentieth-century music lovers, makes up one entire section of the book. The complete story of his rediscovery by Mozart and Beethoven, of the revelation wrought by Mendelssohn's performance of the St. Although he was well known and highly regarded in his own day, he was soon forgotten. ![]() Bach did not foresee the fame future ages were to give his music. The editors have revived legends that have grown up about Bach and his family they have unearthed letters that give the flavor of Bach's life and times they have even found poems attributed to the composer. Here are his evaluations of his students. Here is an amusing account of Bach's reprovals for improper playing, for inviting a young lady into the organ loft, for prolonged absence from duties. Here are documents relating to his personal and business life, letters, family papers, anecdotes. In these pages the personality of Bach comes alive again-in his own words, and in the testimony both of contemporaries and of the generation following his own. The Bach Reader is a comprehensive collection of the most significant original source material on Johann Sebastian Bach. ![]() No other marks and internal text pages are bright, tight, and white. Ex Libris pasted on the illustrated front endpapers. Black boards with gold lettering over red on spine and gold decoration on front board. ![]()
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