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Author: Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry
Release Date: January 24, 2011 [Ebook #35041]
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
***_Johann Sebastian Bach. About 1720. (From the picture by Johann Jakob Ihle, in the Bach Museum, Eisenach)._
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
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
_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