The new Bach reader : a life of Johann Sebastian Bach in letters and documents /
Gathered in this volume are all the letters, reports, testimonials, complaints, thank-you notes, and other writings of J. S. Bach, together with a generous helping of performance and payment inventories, town council proceedings, court and archival records, letters of appointment, and other papers t...
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
c1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Johann Sebastian Bach : a portrait in outline
- Bach's life in his own writings and other documents
- Early biographical documents on Bach
- Bach as viewed by his contemporaries
- Bach in the second half of the Eighteenth Century
- Forkel's biography of Bach (1802/1820)
- Bach in the Romantic era
- Appendix : Money and living costs in Bach's time.