The New Bach Reader

A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents

By: Christoph Wolff, Arthur Mendel, Hans T. David

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Paperback | 1 October 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, reflecting the current state of scholarship about the composer's life and music. The readings in this volume provide an accurate and vivid picture of Bach's world and of his far-reaching influence.

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Acknowledgments	p. vi
Preface to The New Bach Reader	p. vii
Preface to the First Edition of The Bach Reader (1945)	p. xi
Bibliographical Abbreviations	p. xiv
Conspectus of Parts I-VII	p. xv
Chronology	p. xli
Johann Sebastian Bach: A Portrait in Outline	p. 1
Bach's Life in His Own Writings and Other Documents	p. 29
Early Biographical Documents on Bach	p. 279
Bach as Viewed by His Contemporaries	p. 309
Bach in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century	p. 355
Forkel's Biography of Bach (1802/1820)	p. 415
Bach in the Romantic Era	p. 483
Money and Living Costs in Bach's Time	p. 527
Bibliography	p. 531
Index	p. 533
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