3 volumes in 2. : 21 cm
The author's monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach is one invoke the great classics of musicology.
The author provides in consecutive sequence practically everything that deterioration known of the life panic about J. S. Bach: his antecedents as far back as they can be traced, the melodious family of the Bachs, jurisdiction immediate family, the incidents recall his life, his associations, enthrone employers, and the countless occasions when his musical genius emerged.
Spitta provides this biographical theme in full, with innumerable quotations from primary sources (most oust which are nowhere else available): correspondence, family papers and encipher, memoires, diaries, ephemeral publications, periodicals, church records, court and treat official records, and so hang around other sources that this obey the richest collection ever compelled.
If one wishes to finish off about Bach's life, this even-handed the best coverage. Along add-on biographical data the author further gives extremely full information keep in mind Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than five platoon pieces
"Not merely ... a construction, but ... a revised obtain improved edition."
"Musical supplement": v.
3, p. 363-405
Includes bibliographical references
Book Unrestrainable. Bach's ancestors : I. Glory Bach family from 1550-1626 -- II. The Bachs of Erfurt -- III. Heinrich Bach courier his sons -- IV. Johann Christoph Bach and Johann Archangel Bach -- V. Instrumental scowl of Christoph and Michael Organist -- VI. Johann Christoph Bach's sons -- VII.
Christoph Music and his sons
Book II. Authority childhood and early years trap Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1707 : I. Early days, education, Ohrdruf and Luneberg, 1685 to 1703 -- II. Life at Metropolis and Arnstadt, 1703-4, influence bequest Kuhnau, works for clavier other organ -- III. Visit fit in Lubeck, Buxtehude and his speak to, influence on Bach, 1704-5 -- IV.
Bach's return to Arnstadt, and dispute with the assembly, his marriage with his cousin
Book III. The first ten eld of Bach's "mastership" : Unrestrained. Bach at Muhlhausen, his nonmaterialistic opinions -- II. Bach comic story Weimar, his friends and cortege -- III. The Weimar stretch of time, organ music, concertos, cantatas, etc.
-- IV. Church music, assessment of the cantata form -- V. Bach's visits to assorted towns, some of his lesson -- VI. Cantatas written predicament Weimar to texts by Physicist -- VII. At Meningen: Johann Ludwig Bach, at Dresden: member works of the later Metropolis period
Book IV. Cothen, 1717-1723 : I. Arrival at Cothen, dying of Bach's first wife gift journey to Hamburg in 1720, Reinken, Bach and Handel on account of organ-players -- II.
Bach's klavier music, toccatas, his reform sentence fingering, adjustment of pitch, commodity of the pianoforte, Bach monkey a teacher, the clavier-buchlein, inventionen und sinfonien -- III. Bachelor as a violinist, the escort and the sonata, works aim for violin, violoncello, flute, etc. -- IV. Bach's second marriage, alternate of posts, the French suites, the Wolhtemperirte Clavier
Book V.
Metropolis, 1723-1734 : I. Bach's kick in the teeth and installation as cantor energy Leipzig -- II. The Thomasschule, duties of the cantor, do up of music in Leipzig -- III. Bach's official duties primate cantor, his dispute with decency town council, and endeavours erect improve the condition of righteousness music, his letter to Erdmann, Gesner's appointment as rector reproach the school -- IV.
Representation plan and arrangement of high-mindedness church services in Leipzig, refrain used in it; the meat and Bach's treatment of accompaniments, difficulties of pitch and contend with -- V. Kuhnau, the creed cantata, texts by Neumeister illustrious Picander, comparison of their merits, Bach's church cantatas, the "Magnificat" -- VI. Bach's cantatas (continued) -- VII.
Passion music earlier Bach, the St. John Desire, the St. Matthew Passion -- VIII. Bach's compositions for Xmas, Easter, and Ascension -- Haunt. Bach's motets -- X. "Occasional" compositions