The Bach Reader - A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents, Revised Edition

Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel

W. W. Norton

1972

474 páginas

15h 48m

ISBN-10: 0393002594

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and music of J.S. Bach. Not only are there translations of every known piece of writing by him, and every important document about him, but many of his contemporaries and those in the following generation are quoted on their views of Bach's stature and achievement. There is also the complete text of the first biography of Bach, written in 1802 by J.N. Forkel and drawing on information from Bach's sons Friedemann and Emanuel. This book has so much valuable and fascinating information in such a small compass that music lovers will be drawn to it again and again