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The Life of Bach.(Book Review)
The Life of Bach. By Peter Williams. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [viii, 219 p. ISBN 0-521-82636-5. $60. (hbk.); ISBN 0-521-53374-0. $22. (pbk.).] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Peter Williams's The Life of Bach, the fourteenth volume in Cambridge University Press's ongoing Musical Lives series, enters a densely populated, historically rich, and historiographically complex field of research. Following the findings of Alfred Durr and Georg von Dadelsen in the 1950s which cast new light on the chronology of Johann Sebastian Bach's compositional output, the classic biographies of Bach by Philipp Spitta and Albert Schweitzer have ...
- Johann Sebastian Bach as His World Knew Him.
- Magazine article from: Notes Rigler, Ann Marie December 1, 1996 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Linton, Michael March 1, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Blockus, Gary R. July 22, 2004 700+ words
...basement extension. "Is this Sebastian Bach? I loved you in `Gilmore Girls...Here I am expecting to interview Sebastian Bach, ex-frontman for Skid Row...Youth Gone Wild." The same Sebastian Bach who on Broadway played the dual...
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- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Barnett, Victoria November 22, 2000 700+ words
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- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician & Bach.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes SCHULENBERG, DAVID September 1, 2001 700+ words
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. By Christoph...0-393-04825-X. $39.95.] Bach. By Malcolm Boyd. 3d ed. (The Master...here. The available sources for Johann Sebastian Bach's life are famously laconic. Focusing...
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: THE LEARNED MUSICIAN.(Review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Linton, Michael November 1, 2000 700+ words
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: THE LEARNED MUSICIAN. By CHRISTOPH...Christoph Wolff's new biography of Johann Sebastian Bach is already too long. Wolff has devoted...his scholarly and performing life to Bach and his music. He is now Dean of Harvard...
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