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Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach

January 07, 2023

The first major biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach, including those by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Philipp Spitta, were published in the 19th century. Many more were published in the 20th century by, among others, Albert Schweitzer, Charles Sanford Terry, Christoph Wolff and Klaus Eidam.

Title page of Johann Nikolaus Forkel's 1802 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach

18th century

 
Title page of the first volume of Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek [de] (1739). Its fourth part (first published in April 1738) contained an article defending Bach's art against the criticism Johann Adolph Scheibe had published in May 1737. The 1754 last volume of the Musikalische Bibliothek (IV, 1) contained Bach's obituary.

Little was published about Bach's life in the 18th century, his "Nekrolog" (obituary) being the most extended biographical note about the composer's life.

Contemporary biographical sources

No writings by Johann Sebastian Bach were published during his lifetime. He declined Johann Mattheson's invitation to write an autobiographical sketch for inclusion in the Ehrenpforte.[1] There is little biographical material to be found in the compositions published during his lifetime: the glimpse perceived from the dedication of The Musical Offering to Frederick the Great being a small exception. There are however some letters by the composer in which he gives autobiographical detail, including the letter he wrote in 1730 to Georg Erdmann, and the letter he had joined to the score of his Mass for the Dresden court in 1733.[2] Other contemporary sources include archived reports, like those of the decisions of the Leipzig city council.[3]

Contemporary publications, like Johann Mattheson's Beschützte Orchestre, Johann Adolph Scheibe's Critischer Musicus and Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek, rather write about Bach's music than about his life.[4][5][6] Bach's entry in Johann Gottfried Walther's 1732 Lexikon is a rare exception in giving biographical information on the composer.[7]

Bach's obituary

Further information: Bach's Nekrolog

Bach's "Nekrolog" was published in 1754 in the fourth volume of Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek.[8] With less than 20 pages it is the most comprehensive 18th-century publication on the composer's life.

Other 18th century biographical material

For the remainder of the century short biographies of the composer appeared in reference works like Johann Adam Hiller's Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkünstler neurer Zeit,[9] Ernst Ludwig Gerber's Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler[10] and Friedrich Carl Gottlieb Hirsching's Historisch-literarisches Handbuch.[11] The descriptions in such biographical articles were nearly exclusively based on the "Nekrolog", often copied with errors.[12]

Occasionally Bach appears in other writings, like Johann Friedrich Köhler [wikisource:de]'s 1776 manuscript on the history of schools in Leipzig, which gives a short account of Bach falling out with Johann August Ernesti, conrector of the St. Thomas School.[13] In print Bach is mentioned as teacher of some musicians of the next generation, for instance Christoph Nichelmann.[14]

19th century

Forkel's biography was published shortly after the 50th anniversary of the composer's death, and concentrated mostly on an analysis of his compositions. The first biography based on an extensive research of primary sources was published by Spitta in the second half of the 19th century.

Forkel's biography

Further information: Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work

Johann Nikolaus Forkel's Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke (Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work) appeared in Leipzig in 1802. Its biographical material expands what is already in the "Nekrolog" with details Forkel collected from Bach's eldest sons. An English translation, expanded with updates in footnotes and appendices, was published in 1920 by Charles Sanford Terry.[15]

Centennial biographies

A century after the composer's death two short biographies were published. Joh. Carl Schauer published Joh. Seb. Bach's Lebensbild : Eine Denkschrift auf seinem 100 jährigen Todestag, den 28. Jul. 1850, aus Thüringen, seinem Vaterlande,[16] and Carl L. Hilgenfeldt published Johann Sebastian Bach's Leben, Wirken und Werke: ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (Johann Sebastian Bach's life, influence and works: a contribution to the art history of the 18th century) "als Programm zu dem am 28. Julius 1850 eintretenden Säculartage des Todes von Johann Sebastian Bach" (as a program for the centennial days of Johann Sebastian Bach's death, starting 28 July 1850).[17]

Bitter's multi-volume biography

In 1865 Karl Hermann Bitter published a two-volume Bach biography. The biography contains some documents from Bach's time that had not been published before, presented with a wealth of historical inferences and personal reflections.[18] An abridged English translation of the biography appeared in 1873. Shortly after becoming Prussian minister of finance in 1879, Bitter published an enlarged reworking in four volumes of the biography.[19]

Spitta's comprehensive biography

Further information: Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach

Philipp Spitta's Johann Sebastian Bach was published in Leipzig in two volumes, in 1873 and 1880 respectively. Its English translation was published by Novello in three volumes.

In his introduction Spitta dismisses all previous biographies apart from the "Nekrolog", Forkel, and part of Gerber.[20] He is particularly harsh on Bitter.[21] Spitta's biography went down in history as "... the most ... comprehensive and important single work on Johann Sebastian Bach".[22] It eclipsed the previous biographies and laid down premises and methodology for future Bach scholarship.[23]

Bach-biography in English

In the United Kingdom the 19th-century Bach Revival was inscribed in existing traditions respecting baroque music.[24] The Bach-biographies that were published in English were throughout the century largely based on German examples. An amateurish[25] translation of Forkel had appeared in London in 1820.[26] Edward Francis Rimbault had published his Hilgenfeldt/Forkel adaptation in 1869.[27] An abridged version of Bitter's first edition had appeared in 1873.[28] In 1882 the first original English biography appeared, Reginald Lane Poole's Sebastian Bach.[29] Lane Poole bases the biographical data entirely on Spitta, and adds a chronological list of 200 church cantatas by Bach.[30] By the mid-1880s the translation of Spitta's volumes was complete.[31]

1890s

Richard Batka published his biography of the composer in 1892, as part of the Musiker-Biographien series.[32]

20th century

New biographies were written by Schweitzer and Terry in the first half of the 20th century. Only by the end of the century, quarter of a millennium after the composer's death, new major biographies appeared by Eidam and Wolff.

First Decade

By the end of the 19th century the Bach Gesellschaft had completed its task of publishing all known works by Bach. The first decade of the new century brought new significant biographies of the composer.

Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer's Johann Sebastian Bach, le musicien-poète appeared in 1905. It analyses Bach's works primarily from a religious perspective.[33] Its 1908 German edition was enlarged, and more content was added to the 1911 English version.[34]

Pirro

In 1906 André Pirro published a Bach-biography in France. The biography became available in English in 1957, based on the 1949 enlarged French edition.[35]

Parry

In 1909 a new English-language biography of Bach appeared, written by Hubert Parry.[36] In its preface the author pays his homage to Spitta and excuses him for his specialised technicalities: for his new biography Parry proposes a more condensed survey of the topic.[37] Parry shows Bach chauvinism by designating everything what was composed in the 17th century as immature.[38]

Biographical fiction

In 1925 Esther Meynell published The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach, fictitiously telling the story of Bach's life through the eyes of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach.[39] The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, a 1968 film featuring Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian Bach, took the same perspective.[40]

Terry

Charles Sanford Terry's Bach biography of 1928 focusses on the places where Bach lived.[33] It is the first biography that contains biographical documents not yet included in Spitta's.[41]

Gurlitt

Bach's 250th birthday was remembered with a short biography by Wilibald Gurlitt, "Niederschrift des Jubiläumsvortrages bei der Bach-Feier des Ev. Studentenpfarramtes der Universität Freiburg i.Br. im Sommersemester 1935" (written out version of the jubilee speech at the Bach feast of the evangelical student community of the university of Freiburg im Breisgau, in the summer semester of 1935). Published in 1936, it was translated in English in 1957. An enlarged German edition was published in 1980.[42]

From 1945 to the 1970s

In 1950, two centuries after the composer's death, Wolfgang Schmieder published the BWV catalogue. The decades following World War II also saw the publication of a number of biographical works.

Bach Reader

Hans Theodor David [de] and Arthur Mendel published The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents in 1945. It was revised as The New Bach Reader by Christoph Wolff in 1998.[43]

Cherbuliez

Swiss musicologist Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez (1888–1964)[44] derives the biographical material for his 1946 Bach biography essentially from the "Nekrolog", and the biographies by Forkel, Spitta and Terry.[45]

Neumann – Bach Archive

Werner Neumann, from 1951 director of the East-German section of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA), published several biographies of the composer. In 1953 Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs, acclaimed by Alfred Dürr, the director of the West-German section of the NBA.[46] An enlarged German edition was issued in 1962.[47] In 1960 Bach: eine Bildbiographie was published. These two works were translated as Bach and his world and Bach: A Pictorial Biography[48]

Under Neumann's direction, from its founding in 1950 until he retired in 1973, the Leipzig Bach Archive published biographical material about Bach, for instance in 1970 the Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs (time table to the history of Johann Sebastian Bach's life).[49] Hans-Joachim Schulze, Neumann's successor as director of the Archive, revised this Kalendarium for its second edition in 1979.[50]

Miles

In 1962 Russell Hancock Miles published Johann Sebastian Bach: an Introduction to His Life and Works.[51]

Geiringer

In 1966 Karl and Irene Geiringer published Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of An Era.[52]

1970s essay collections

Walter Blankenburg published an essay collection, with contributions by scholars such as Dürr and David, in 1970.[53] In 1976 Barbara Schwendowius and Wolfgang Dömling published a collection of eleven essays by, among others, Wolff and Dürr under the title Johann Sebastian Bach : Zeit, Leben, Wirken. The next year the book was translated as Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times, Influence.[54]

Basso

Around 1980 Alberto Basso published the two volumes of his Italian Bach-biography Frau Musika.[55] The biography largely follows Spitta's model, with updates to intermediate research.[56]

Around Bach's 300th birthday

In the years leading up to Bach's 300th birthday in 1985 some new biographies were published. Malcolm Boyd's Bach appeared in 1983.[57] Denis Arnold's Bach appeared the next year,[58] as well as a new French biography by Roland de Candé,[59] and a German one by Werner Felix. That last one was translated into English in 1985.[60] Piero Buscaroli's Italian biography appeared in 1985.[61]

Turn of the century

Around the 250th anniversary of Bach's death (2000) several new biographies were published, along with reprints and revised editions of earlier publications.

Butt

John Butt collaborated to several publications on Bach. In 1997 he was the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Bach, with chapters written by Malcolm Boyd, Ulrich Siegele, Robin A. Leaver, Stephen A. Crist, Werner Breig, Richard D. P. Jones, Laurence Dreyfus, Stephen Daw, George B. Stauffer and Martin Zenck.[62]

Eidam

Klaus Eidam's 1999 Das Wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach (The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach) tries to correct some misconceptions that crept in the biographical writing on the composer, based on a new perusal of primary sources.[33]

Wolff

Christoph Wolff, a Bach scholar, wrote his major biographical work on Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, in 2000.[63] In 1998 Wolff had revised David and Mendel's Bach Reader into The New Bach Reader.[64] In 1999 a compilation of Bach-related essays Wolff wrote between 1963 and 1988 had its fourth reprint.[65][66]

Geck

Also in 2000 Martin Geck published Bach: Leben und Werk, six years later translated as Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work.[67] A previous shorter work by Geck, with a focus on illustrative material, was translated as Bach in 2000.[68]

't Hart

Maarten 't Hart's biography, focussing on Bach's cantatas, appeared in Dutch and German in 2000.[69]

21st century

In the 21st century a sizeable portion of biographical material on Johann Sebastian Bach became available on-line, including full scans of older biographies that were no longer copyrighted. Andreas Glöckner's revised edition of the 1970s Kalendarium was published in 2008.[70] This, in turn, formed the basis for the jsbach website, presenting data about Bach's life in time table format.[71] New biographies were written by Williams and Gardiner.

Williams

In 2004 a new English biography of Bach, written by Peter Williams, was published by the Cambridge University Press.[72] In 2007 Williams published J. S. Bach: A Life in Music.[73] Williams's Bach: A Musical Biography was published posthumously in September 2016.[74]

Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner's Music in the castle of heaven was published in 2013.[75]

Schulenberg

David Schulenberg's biography, Bach, was published in 2020.[76]

Partial biographies

Apart from the biographies that take the reader from Bach's birth in 1685 to his death in 1750, several studies highlight specific aspects of the composer's life.[77]

Filmed biography

Johann Sebastian Bach's life was the subject of several films.[78]

Original title English title Date Director Actor playing Bach Comments
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Jean-Marie Straub
Danièle Huillet 		Gustav Leonhardt Story told from the perspective of Anna Magdalena Bach
The New York Times: "While this 'Chronicle' ... is a testament to [Bach's] ever-living music, it is, unfortunately, lifeless as biography"[40]
Johann Sebastian Bach [de] 1985 Lothar Bellag [de] Ulrich Thein East-German TV biopic in four parts. Klaus Eidam [de] collaborated to the script.[33]
Bach's Fight for Freedom Bach's Fight for Freedom 1995 Stuart Gillard Ted Dykstra Bach's last year in Weimar (1717)
Mein Name ist Bach My Name Is Bach 2003 Dominique de Rivaz [de] Vadim Glowna Swiss film about Bach's 1747 visit to Potsdam, meeting Frederick the Great.[79][80]
Sebastian (Bach - the animated series) Sebastian (Bach - the animated series) 2018- Fielding, Peter Fielding, Peter Italian series of cartoons about Bach's life.[81]

References

  1. ^ Spitta 1899 III, p. 228
  2. ^ Eidam 2001, chapter XVIII
  3. ^ Eidam 2001, chapter XIV
  4. ^ Johann Mattheson. Das Beschützte Orchestre, oder desselben Zweyte Eröffnung, footnote p. 222 Hamburg: Schiller, 1717.
  5. ^ Johann Adolf Scheibe. pp. 46–47 in Critischer Musicus VI, 14 May 1737. Quoted in Eidam 2001, Chapter XXII.
  6. ^ Lorenz Christoph Mizler. Musikalische Bibliothek. Volume I, Part 4, pp. 61–73. Leipzig, April 1738. Includes a reprint of Johann Abraham Birnbaum's Unpartheyische Anmerckungen über eine bedenckliche stelle in dem Sechsten stück des Critischen Musicus. published early January of the same year.
  7. ^ Johann Gottfried Walther Musicalisches Lexicon oder Musicalische Bibliothec, p. 64. Leipzig, W. Deer. 1732.
  8. ^ "Nekrolog" 1754
  9. ^ Johann Adam Hiller. "Bach (Johann Sebastian)", pp. 9–29 in Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkünstler neurer Zeit, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Dyk, 1784.
  10. ^ Ernst Ludwig Gerber. "Bach (Joh. Sebastian)", column 86 ff. in Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler. Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1790.
  11. ^ Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching [de]. "Bach, Johann Sebastian", pp. 77–80 in Historisch-literarisches Handbuch berühmter und denkwürdiger Personen, welche in dem 18. Jahrhunderte gestorben sind: oder kurzgefaßte biographische und historische Nachrichten von berühmten Kaisern, Königen, Fürsten, großen Feldherren ... und andern merkwürdigen Personen beyderley Geschlechts. Erster Band: A - Brindley. Leipzig: Schwickert, 1794.
  12. ^ Spitta 1899, I, pp. ii–iii
  13. ^ Spitta 1899, III, pp. 11–12
  14. ^ "Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. Historisch-kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik" (in German). christoph-nichelmann.de. 1754. Retrieved 5 December 2012.
  15. ^ Forkel 1920
  16. ^ Schauer 1850
  17. ^ Hilgenfeldt 1850, title page
  18. ^ Spitta 1899, I, pp. iv–v
  19. ^ Bitter
  20. ^ Spitta 1899, I, p. v
  21. ^ Spitta 1992 Vol. I, p. xiii
  22. ^ Spitta 1992 Vol. I, p. xix
  23. ^ Wolff 1991 pp. 4–5
  24. ^ McKay, Cory. "The Bach Reception in the 18th and 19th century" at www.music.mcgill.ca
  25. ^ Forkel/Terry 1920 pp. xix–xxi
  26. ^ Forkel 1820
  27. ^ Rimbault 1869
  28. ^ Bitter 1873
  29. ^ Spitta 1992 Vol. I, p. xviii
  30. ^ "The Life of Sebastian Bach" in Chicago Tribune. July 29, 1882, p. 9.
  31. ^ Spitta 1884–1885
  32. ^ Batka 1892.
  33. ^ a b c d Eidam 2001, Introduction
  34. ^ Schweitzer
  35. ^ Pirro
  36. ^ Parry 1909
  37. ^ Parry 1909, p. v-vi
  38. ^ Stephen A. Crist. Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music at symposium.music.org
  39. ^ Meynell 1925
  40. ^ a b A. H. Weiler. "Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)" in The New York Times, April 7, 1969
  41. ^ Wolff 1991 p. 4
  42. ^ Gurlitt
  43. ^ David & Mendel
  44. ^ Wolfgang W. Müller. Suche nach dem Unbedingten: spirituelle Spuren in der Kunst, p. 49. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2008. ISBN 9783290200466
  45. ^ Cherbuliez 1946, p. 13
  46. ^ Alfred Dürr. Review of Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs by Werner Neumann in Die Musikforschung 9/2, 1956, pp. 231-233
  47. ^ Neumann 1953
  48. ^ Neumann 1960
  49. ^ Bach-Archiv 1970
  50. ^ Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs, 2nd revised edition at Online Bach Bibliography website.
  51. ^ Miles 1962
  52. ^ Geiringer 1966
  53. ^ Blankenburg 1970
  54. ^ Schwendowius & Dömling
  55. ^ Basso, 1979 (I) and 1983 (II)
  56. ^ Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Review of Frau Musika: la vita e le opere di J. S. Bach. Vol. 2: (1723-1750) by Alberto Basso in Music & Letters Vol. 66, No. 2. April 1985. pp. 129–131.
  57. ^ OCLC 10139466
  58. ^ Arnold 1984
  59. ^ de Candé 1984
  60. ^ Felix
  61. ^ Buscaroli 1985
  62. ^ OCLC 829742314
  63. ^ OCLC 433700566
  64. ^ David & Mendel 1998
  65. ^ Wolff 1991
  66. ^ Alfred Dürr. Review of Bach: Essays on His Life and Music by Christoph Wolff in Notes Vol. 49, No. 2. December 1992, pp. 508-510
  67. ^ Geck 2006
  68. ^ Geck 1993
  69. ^ OCLC 907016747
  70. ^ Bach-Archiv 2008
  71. ^ jsbach biografie online at jsbach.de website. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  72. ^ Williams 2004
  73. ^ Williams 2007
  74. ^ Bach: A Musical Biography at Cambridge University Press website.
  75. ^ Gardiner 2013
  76. ^ Schulenberg 2020
  77. ^ Biography: Special studies at www.bach-cantatas.com
  78. ^ Johann Sebastian Bach (Character) at Internet Movie Database website
  79. ^ Mein Name ist Bach at www.swissfilms.ch
  80. ^ My Name Is Bach at www.filmaffinity
  81. ^ Sebastian (Bach - the animated series)

Biographies

  • Denis Arnold. Bach. Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 019287554X
  • Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs. 1970.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola. "Nekrolog" (full title: "VI. Denkmal dreyer verstorbenen Mitglieder der Societät der musikalischen Wissenschafften; C. Der dritte und letzte ist der im Orgelspielen Weltberühmte HochEdle Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, Königlich-Pohlnischer und Churfürstlich Sächsicher Hofcompositeur, und Musikdirector in Leipzig"), pp. 158–176 in Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek [de], Volume IV No. 1. Leipzig, Mizlerischer Bücherverlag, 1754.
  • Alberto Basso. Frau Musika: La vita e le opere di J. S. Bach. Turin, EDT:
    • Volume 1: Le origini familiari, l'ambiente luterano, gli anni giovanili, Weimar e Köthen (1685–1723). 1979. ISBN 88-7063-011-0
    • Volume 2: Lipsia e le opere de la maturità (1723–1750). 1983. ISBN 88-7063-028-5
  • Batka, Richard (1892). J. S. Bach. Musiker-Biographien (in German). Vol. 15. Leipzig: Reclam.
  • Karl Hermann Bitter. Johann Sebastian Bach. Berlin: Schneider, 1865. Vol. 1 – Vol. 2
    • Abridged translation by Janet Elizabeth Kay-Shuttleworth. London: Houlston. 1873.
    • Second revised and enlarged edition in 4 volumes. Berlin: Baensch, 1880. OCLC 318374312
      • 1881 print (Baensch). Vol. 1 – Vol. 2 – Vol. 3 – Vol. 4
      • 1978 DDR/Bärenreiter reprint in 2 volumes + facsimiles. OCLC 679929712, 680128546
  • Walter Blankenburg, editor. Johann Sebastian Bach. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1970. OCLC 1060904
  • Malcolm Boyd. Bach. London: J. M. Dent, 1983. ISBN 9780460044660
    • Oxford Press republication (2006)
  • Piero Buscaroli. Bach. Milano: A. Mondadori, 1985. OCLC 13499133
  • John Butt, editor. The Cambridge companion to Bach. Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780521587808.
  • Roland de Candé [fr]. Jean-Sébastien Bach. Paris: Seuil, 1984. ISBN 9782020085052
  • A.-E. Cherbuliez [de]. Johann Sebastian Bach: Sein Leben und sein Werk. Olten: Otto Walter, 1946.
  • Hans Theodore David and Arthur Mendel, editors. The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. New York: W. W. Norton, 1945. OCLC 219802687
  • Klaus Eidam [de]. Das wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach. Piper, 1999. ISBN 3492040799
  • Werner Felix. Johann Sebastian Bach. Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1984. OCLC 750950924
    • English translation. London: Orbis; New York: W. W. Norton. 1985.
  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel. Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Für patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel. 1802.
    • English translation with notes and appendices by Charles Sanford Terry: Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe; London: Constable. 1920. (e-version at Gutenberg.org)
    • Edited by Max Friedrich Schneider [de] (notes and appendices based on, among others, Terry's Bach biography): Über Joh. Seb. Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke. Basel: Hardimann. 1946. OCLC 884470080, 600527458
  • John Eliot Gardiner. Music in the castle of heaven. 2013.
  • Martin Geck. Johann Sebastian Bach : mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rowohlt, 1993. ISBN 9783499505119
    • Translation by Anthea Bell based on the 6th German edition (2000), with an introduction by John Butt: Bach. London: Haus Publishing. 2003. ISBN 9781904341161
  • Martin Geck. Bach: Leben und Werk. Rowohlt, 2000. ISBN 9783498024833
    • Translated by John Hargraves. Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006. ISBN 9780151006489
  • Karl and Irene Geiringer. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of An Era. New York: Oxford University Press; London: George Allen & Unwin. 1966
  • Wilibald Gurlitt. Johann Sebastian Bach: der Meister und sein Werk. Berlin: Furche, 1936. OCLC 612001760
  • Maarten 't Hart. Johann Sebastian Bach. De Arbeiderspers, 2000. ISBN 9789029576840
  • Carl L. Hilgenfeldt. Johann Sebastian Bach's Leben, Wirken und Werke: ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Leipzig: Friedrich Hofmeister, 1850
  • Reginald Lane Poole. Sebastian Bach. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882.
    • In the early 20th century republished by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. as Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, with a foreword by Francesco Berger. OCLC 317890815, 5526964
    • Republished: Nabu Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1278440545
  • Esther Meynell. The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach. London: Chatto & Windus; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. OCLC 613081920
  • Russell Hancock Miles. Johann Sebastian Bach: an Introduction to His Life and Works. Prentice-Hall, 1962
  • Werner Neumann. Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs. Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1953. OCLC 715957084
    • Fourth improved German edition (1962). OCLC 253348932
  • Werner Neumann. Bach: Eine Bildbiographie. Berlin: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1960. OCLC 5116231
    • Revised edition. München: Kindler, 1961. OCLC 271067638
    • Translated by Stefan de Haan:
      • Bach: A Pictorial Biography. New York: Viking Press; London: Thames and Hudson. 1961.
      • Bach and his World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961.
      • From 1969 revised editions (under both titles), e.g. Thames & Hudson, 1970
  • Hubert Parry. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: The Knickerbocker Press. 1909.
  • André Pirro. J.-S. Bach. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1906. OCLC 842307554
    • Third edition (1910)
    • Revised edition (1949) OCLC 459516149
    • Translated by Mervyn Savil: J. S. Bach. New York: Orion Press, 1957. OCLC 16448996
  • Edward Francis Rimbault. Johann Sebastian Bach: his life and writings. Adapted from the German of Hilgenfeldt and Forkel. With additions from original sources. London, Metzler & co., 1869.
  • Joh. Carl Schauer. Joh. Seb. Bach's Lebensbild: Eine Denkschrift auf seinem 100 jährigen Todestag, den 28. Jul. 1850, aus Thüringen, seinem Vaterlande. Jena, F. Luden. 1850.
  • Barbara Schwendowius and Wolfgang Dömling, editors. Johann Sebastian Bach: Zeit, Leben, Wirken. Bärenreiter, 1976. ISBN 9783761805466
    • Translated as Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times, Influence. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1977. ISBN 9783761805893
  • David Schulenberg. Bach. Oxford University Press. 2000.
  • Albert Schweitzer. J. S. Bach, le musicien-poète. Preface by Charles Marie Widor. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1905.
    • Enlarged German edition: J. S. Bach. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1908.
    • English translation in two volumes by Ernest Newman (based on the 1908 German edition, with alterations and additions by Schweitzer): J. S. Bach. London: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1911. Volume 1 – Volume 2
      • Reissued in 1923 by A. & C. Black, reprinted 1935: Volume 1 – Volume 2
  • Philipp Spitta. Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • Charles Sanford Terry. Bach: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1928. OCLC 912873095, 893564008, 902573683
  • Peter Williams. The Life of Bach. Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 9780521533744
  • Peter Williams. J. S. Bach: A Life in Music. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9781139461191
  • Christoph Wolff. Bach: Essays on His Life and Music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1991. ISBN 9780674059269 (4th reprint, 1999)
  • Christoph Wolff. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04825-X

External links

  • J. S. Bach biography and Bibliography F: Biography at www.bach-cantatas.com
  • at www.let.rug.nl
  • Michael and Lawrence Sartorius. "Johann Sebastian Bach: a detailed informative biography". at www.baroquemusic.org

January 07, 2023
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The first major biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach including those by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Philipp Spitta were published in the 19th century Many more were published in the 20th century by among others Albert Schweitzer Charles Sanford Terry Christoph Wolff and Klaus Eidam Title page of Johann Nikolaus Forkel s 1802 biography of Johann Sebastian Bach Contents 1 18th century 1 1 Contemporary biographical sources 1 2 Bach s obituary 1 3 Other 18th century biographical material 2 19th century 2 1 Forkel s biography 2 2 Centennial biographies 2 3 Bitter s multi volume biography 2 4 Spitta s comprehensive biography 2 5 Bach biography in English 2 6 1890s 3 20th century 3 1 First Decade 3 1 1 Schweitzer 3 1 2 Pirro 3 1 3 Parry 3 2 Biographical fiction 3 3 Terry 3 4 Gurlitt 3 5 From 1945 to the 1970s 3 5 1 Bach Reader 3 5 2 Cherbuliez 3 5 3 Neumann Bach Archive 3 5 4 Miles 3 5 5 Geiringer 3 5 6 1970s essay collections 3 6 Basso 3 7 Around Bach s 300th birthday 3 8 Turn of the century 3 8 1 Butt 3 8 2 Eidam 3 8 3 Wolff 3 8 4 Geck 3 8 5 t Hart 4 21st century 4 1 Williams 4 2 Gardiner 4 3 Schulenberg 5 Partial biographies 6 Filmed biography 7 References 8 Biographies 9 External links18th century Edit Title page of the first volume of Mizler s Musikalische Bibliothek de 1739 Its fourth part first published in April 1738 contained an article defending Bach s art against the criticism Johann Adolph Scheibe had published in May 1737 The 1754 last volume of the Musikalische Bibliothek IV 1 contained Bach s obituary Little was published about Bach s life in the 18th century his Nekrolog obituary being the most extended biographical note about the composer s life Contemporary biographical sources Edit No writings by Johann Sebastian Bach were published during his lifetime He declined Johann Mattheson s invitation to write an autobiographical sketch for inclusion in the Ehrenpforte 1 There is little biographical material to be found in the compositions published during his lifetime the glimpse perceived from the dedication of The Musical Offering to Frederick the Great being a small exception There are however some letters by the composer in which he gives autobiographical detail including the letter he wrote in 1730 to Georg Erdmann and the letter he had joined to the score of his Mass for the Dresden court in 1733 2 Other contemporary sources include archived reports like those of the decisions of the Leipzig city council 3 Contemporary publications like Johann Mattheson s Beschutzte Orchestre Johann Adolph Scheibe s Critischer Musicus and Lorenz Christoph Mizler s Musikalische Bibliothek rather write about Bach s music than about his life 4 5 6 Bach s entry in Johann Gottfried Walther s 1732 Lexikon is a rare exception in giving biographical information on the composer 7 Bach s obituary Edit Further information Bach s Nekrolog Bach s Nekrolog was published in 1754 in the fourth volume of Mizler s Musikalische Bibliothek 8 With less than 20 pages it is the most comprehensive 18th century publication on the composer s life Other 18th century biographical material Edit For the remainder of the century short biographies of the composer appeared in reference works like Johann Adam Hiller s Lebensbeschreibungen beruhmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkunstler neurer Zeit 9 Ernst Ludwig Gerber s Historisch biographisches Lexikon der Tonkunstler 10 and Friedrich Carl Gottlieb Hirsching s Historisch literarisches Handbuch 11 The descriptions in such biographical articles were nearly exclusively based on the Nekrolog often copied with errors 12 Occasionally Bach appears in other writings like Johann Friedrich Kohler wikisource de s 1776 manuscript on the history of schools in Leipzig which gives a short account of Bach falling out with Johann August Ernesti conrector of the St Thomas School 13 In print Bach is mentioned as teacher of some musicians of the next generation for instance Christoph Nichelmann 14 19th century EditForkel s biography was published shortly after the 50th anniversary of the composer s death and concentrated mostly on an analysis of his compositions The first biography based on an extensive research of primary sources was published by Spitta in the second half of the 19th century Forkel s biography Edit Further information Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work Johann Nikolaus Forkel s Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben Kunst und Kunstwerke Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work appeared in Leipzig in 1802 Its biographical material expands what is already in the Nekrolog with details Forkel collected from Bach s eldest sons An English translation expanded with updates in footnotes and appendices was published in 1920 by Charles Sanford Terry 15 Centennial biographies Edit A century after the composer s death two short biographies were published Joh Carl Schauer published Joh Seb Bach s Lebensbild Eine Denkschrift auf seinem 100 jahrigen Todestag den 28 Jul 1850 aus Thuringen seinem Vaterlande 16 and Carl L Hilgenfeldt published Johann Sebastian Bach s Leben Wirken und Werke ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Johann Sebastian Bach s life influence and works a contribution to the art history of the 18th century als Programm zu dem am 28 Julius 1850 eintretenden Saculartage des Todes von Johann Sebastian Bach as a program for the centennial days of Johann Sebastian Bach s death starting 28 July 1850 17 Bitter s multi volume biography Edit In 1865 Karl Hermann Bitter published a two volume Bach biography The biography contains some documents from Bach s time that had not been published before presented with a wealth of historical inferences and personal reflections 18 An abridged English translation of the biography appeared in 1873 Shortly after becoming Prussian minister of finance in 1879 Bitter published an enlarged reworking in four volumes of the biography 19 Spitta s comprehensive biography Edit Further information Spitta s Johann Sebastian Bach Philipp Spitta s Johann Sebastian Bach was published in Leipzig in two volumes in 1873 and 1880 respectively Its English translation was published by Novello in three volumes In his introduction Spitta dismisses all previous biographies apart from the Nekrolog Forkel and part of Gerber 20 He is particularly harsh on Bitter 21 Spitta s biography went down in history as the most comprehensive and important single work on Johann Sebastian Bach 22 It eclipsed the previous biographies and laid down premises and methodology for future Bach scholarship 23 Bach biography in English Edit In the United Kingdom the 19th century Bach Revival was inscribed in existing traditions respecting baroque music 24 The Bach biographies that were published in English were throughout the century largely based on German examples An amateurish 25 translation of Forkel had appeared in London in 1820 26 Edward Francis Rimbault had published his Hilgenfeldt Forkel adaptation in 1869 27 An abridged version of Bitter s first edition had appeared in 1873 28 In 1882 the first original English biography appeared Reginald Lane Poole s Sebastian Bach 29 Lane Poole bases the biographical data entirely on Spitta and adds a chronological list of 200 church cantatas by Bach 30 By the mid 1880s the translation of Spitta s volumes was complete 31 1890s Edit Richard Batka published his biography of the composer in 1892 as part of the Musiker Biographien series 32 20th century EditNew biographies were written by Schweitzer and Terry in the first half of the 20th century Only by the end of the century quarter of a millennium after the composer s death new major biographies appeared by Eidam and Wolff First Decade Edit By the end of the 19th century the Bach Gesellschaft had completed its task of publishing all known works by Bach The first decade of the new century brought new significant biographies of the composer Schweitzer Edit Albert Schweitzer s Johann Sebastian Bach le musicien poete appeared in 1905 It analyses Bach s works primarily from a religious perspective 33 Its 1908 German edition was enlarged and more content was added to the 1911 English version 34 Pirro Edit In 1906 Andre Pirro published a Bach biography in France The biography became available in English in 1957 based on the 1949 enlarged French edition 35 Parry Edit In 1909 a new English language biography of Bach appeared written by Hubert Parry 36 In its preface the author pays his homage to Spitta and excuses him for his specialised technicalities for his new biography Parry proposes a more condensed survey of the topic 37 Parry shows Bach chauvinism by designating everything what was composed in the 17th century as immature 38 Biographical fiction Edit In 1925 Esther Meynell published The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach fictitiously telling the story of Bach s life through the eyes of his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach 39 The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach a 1968 film featuring Gustav Leonhardt as Johann Sebastian Bach took the same perspective 40 Terry Edit Charles Sanford Terry s Bach biography of 1928 focusses on the places where Bach lived 33 It is the first biography that contains biographical documents not yet included in Spitta s 41 Gurlitt Edit Bach s 250th birthday was remembered with a short biography by Wilibald Gurlitt Niederschrift des Jubilaumsvortrages bei der Bach Feier des Ev Studentenpfarramtes der Universitat Freiburg i Br im Sommersemester 1935 written out version of the jubilee speech at the Bach feast of the evangelical student community of the university of Freiburg im Breisgau in the summer semester of 1935 Published in 1936 it was translated in English in 1957 An enlarged German edition was published in 1980 42 From 1945 to the 1970s Edit In 1950 two centuries after the composer s death Wolfgang Schmieder published the BWV catalogue The decades following World War II also saw the publication of a number of biographical works Bach Reader Edit Hans Theodor David de and Arthur Mendel published The Bach Reader A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents in 1945 It was revised as The New Bach Reader by Christoph Wolff in 1998 43 Cherbuliez Edit Swiss musicologist Antoine Elisee Cherbuliez 1888 1964 44 derives the biographical material for his 1946 Bach biography essentially from the Nekrolog and the biographies by Forkel Spitta and Terry 45 Neumann Bach Archive Edit Werner Neumann from 1951 director of the East German section of the Neue Bach Ausgabe NBA published several biographies of the composer In 1953 Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs acclaimed by Alfred Durr the director of the West German section of the NBA 46 An enlarged German edition was issued in 1962 47 In 1960 Bach eine Bildbiographie was published These two works were translated as Bach and his world and Bach A Pictorial Biography 48 Under Neumann s direction from its founding in 1950 until he retired in 1973 the Leipzig Bach Archive published biographical material about Bach for instance in 1970 the Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs time table to the history of Johann Sebastian Bach s life 49 Hans Joachim Schulze Neumann s successor as director of the Archive revised this Kalendarium for its second edition in 1979 50 Miles Edit In 1962 Russell Hancock Miles published Johann Sebastian Bach an Introduction to His Life and Works 51 Geiringer Edit In 1966 Karl and Irene Geiringer published Johann Sebastian Bach The Culmination of An Era 52 1970s essay collections Edit Walter Blankenburg published an essay collection with contributions by scholars such as Durr and David in 1970 53 In 1976 Barbara Schwendowius and Wolfgang Domling published a collection of eleven essays by among others Wolff and Durr under the title Johann Sebastian Bach Zeit Leben Wirken The next year the book was translated as Johann Sebastian Bach Life Times Influence 54 Basso Edit Around 1980 Alberto Basso published the two volumes of his Italian Bach biography Frau Musika 55 The biography largely follows Spitta s model with updates to intermediate research 56 Around Bach s 300th birthday Edit In the years leading up to Bach s 300th birthday in 1985 some new biographies were published Malcolm Boyd s Bach appeared in 1983 57 Denis Arnold s Bach appeared the next year 58 as well as a new French biography by Roland de Cande 59 and a German one by Werner Felix That last one was translated into English in 1985 60 Piero Buscaroli s Italian biography appeared in 1985 61 Turn of the century Edit Around the 250th anniversary of Bach s death 2000 several new biographies were published along with reprints and revised editions of earlier publications Butt Edit John Butt collaborated to several publications on Bach In 1997 he was the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Bach with chapters written by Malcolm Boyd Ulrich Siegele Robin A Leaver Stephen A Crist Werner Breig Richard D P Jones Laurence Dreyfus Stephen Daw George B Stauffer and Martin Zenck 62 Eidam Edit Klaus Eidam s 1999 Das Wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach tries to correct some misconceptions that crept in the biographical writing on the composer based on a new perusal of primary sources 33 Wolff Edit Christoph Wolff a Bach scholar wrote his major biographical work on Bach Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician in 2000 63 In 1998 Wolff had revised David and Mendel s Bach Reader into The New Bach Reader 64 In 1999 a compilation of Bach related essays Wolff wrote between 1963 and 1988 had its fourth reprint 65 66 Geck Edit Also in 2000 Martin Geck published Bach Leben und Werk six years later translated as Johann Sebastian Bach Life and Work 67 A previous shorter work by Geck with a focus on illustrative material was translated as Bach in 2000 68 t Hart Edit Maarten t Hart s biography focussing on Bach s cantatas appeared in Dutch and German in 2000 69 21st century EditIn the 21st century a sizeable portion of biographical material on Johann Sebastian Bach became available on line including full scans of older biographies that were no longer copyrighted Andreas Glockner s revised edition of the 1970s Kalendarium was published in 2008 70 This in turn formed the basis for the jsbach website presenting data about Bach s life in time table format 71 New biographies were written by Williams and Gardiner Williams Edit In 2004 a new English biography of Bach written by Peter Williams was published by the Cambridge University Press 72 In 2007 Williams published J S Bach A Life in Music 73 Williams s Bach A Musical Biography was published posthumously in September 2016 74 Gardiner Edit John Eliot Gardiner s Music in the castle of heaven was published in 2013 75 Schulenberg Edit David Schulenberg s biography Bach was published in 2020 76 Partial biographies EditApart from the biographies that take the reader from Bach s birth in 1685 to his death in 1750 several studies highlight specific aspects of the composer s life 77 Filmed biography EditJohann Sebastian Bach s life was the subject of several films 78 Original title English title Date Director Actor playing Bach CommentsThe Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Jean Marie StraubDaniele Huillet Gustav Leonhardt Story told from the perspective of Anna Magdalena BachThe New York Times While this Chronicle is a testament to Bach s ever living music it is unfortunately lifeless as biography 40 Johann Sebastian Bach de 1985 Lothar Bellag de Ulrich Thein East German TV biopic in four parts Klaus Eidam de collaborated to the script 33 Bach s Fight for Freedom Bach s Fight for Freedom 1995 Stuart Gillard Ted Dykstra Bach s last year in Weimar 1717 Mein Name ist Bach My Name Is Bach 2003 Dominique de Rivaz de Vadim Glowna Swiss film about Bach s 1747 visit to Potsdam meeting Frederick the Great 79 80 Sebastian Bach the animated series Sebastian Bach the animated series 2018 Fielding Peter Fielding Peter Italian series of cartoons about Bach s life 81 References Edit Spitta 1899 III p 228 Eidam 2001 chapter XVIII Eidam 2001 chapter XIV Johann Mattheson Das Beschutzte Orchestre oder desselben Zweyte Eroffnung footnote p 222 Hamburg Schiller 1717 Johann Adolf Scheibe pp 46 47 in Critischer Musicus VI 14 May 1737 Quoted in Eidam 2001 Chapter XXII Lorenz Christoph Mizler Musikalische Bibliothek Volume I Part 4 pp 61 73 Leipzig April 1738 Includes a reprint of Johann Abraham Birnbaum s Unpartheyische Anmerckungen uber eine bedenckliche stelle in dem Sechsten stuck des Critischen Musicus published early January of the same year Johann Gottfried Walther Musicalisches Lexicon oder Musicalische Bibliothec p 64 Leipzig W Deer 1732 Nekrolog 1754 Johann Adam Hiller Bach Johann Sebastian pp 9 29 in Lebensbeschreibungen beruhmter Musikgelehrten und Tonkunstler neurer Zeit Vol 1 Leipzig Dyk 1784 Ernst Ludwig Gerber Bach Joh Sebastian column 86 ff in Historisch biographisches Lexikon der Tonkunstler Leipzig Breitkopf 1790 Friedrich Carl Gottlob Hirsching de Bach Johann Sebastian pp 77 80 in Historisch literarisches Handbuch beruhmter und denkwurdiger Personen welche in dem 18 Jahrhunderte gestorben sind oder kurzgefasste biographische und historische Nachrichten von beruhmten Kaisern Konigen Fursten grossen Feldherren und andern merkwurdigen Personen beyderley Geschlechts Erster Band A Brindley Leipzig Schwickert 1794 Spitta 1899 I pp ii iii Spitta 1899 III pp 11 12 Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg Historisch kritische Beytrage zur Aufnahme der Musik in German christoph nichelmann de 1754 Retrieved 5 December 2012 Forkel 1920 Schauer 1850 Hilgenfeldt 1850 title page Spitta 1899 I pp iv v Bitter Spitta 1899 I p v Spitta 1992 Vol I p xiii Spitta 1992 Vol I p xix Wolff 1991 pp 4 5 McKay Cory The Bach Reception in the 18th and 19th century at www wbr music wbr mcgill wbr ca Forkel Terry 1920 pp xix xxi Forkel 1820 Rimbault 1869 Bitter 1873 Spitta 1992 Vol I p xviii The Life of Sebastian Bach in Chicago Tribune July 29 1882 p 9 Spitta 1884 1885 Batka 1892 a b c d Eidam 2001 Introduction Schweitzer Pirro Parry 1909 Parry 1909 p v vi Stephen A Crist Beyond Bach Centrism Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth Century Music at symposium wbr music wbr org Meynell 1925 a b A H Weiler Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 in The New York Times April 7 1969 Wolff 1991 p 4 Gurlitt David amp Mendel Wolfgang W Muller Suche nach dem Unbedingten spirituelle Spuren in der Kunst p 49 Theologischer Verlag Zurich 2008 ISBN 9783290200466 Cherbuliez 1946 p 13 Alfred Durr Review of Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs by Werner Neumann in Die Musikforschung 9 2 1956 pp 231 233 Neumann 1953 Neumann 1960 Bach Archiv 1970 Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs 2nd revised edition at Online Bach Bibliography website Miles 1962 Geiringer 1966 Blankenburg 1970 Schwendowius amp Domling Basso 1979 I and 1983 II Eleanor Selfridge Field Review of Frau Musika la vita e le opere di J S Bach Vol 2 1723 1750 by Alberto Basso in Music amp Letters Vol 66 No 2 April 1985 pp 129 131 OCLC 10139466 Arnold 1984 de Cande 1984 Felix Buscaroli 1985 OCLC 829742314 OCLC 433700566 David amp Mendel 1998 Wolff 1991 Alfred Durr Review of Bach Essays on His Life and Music by Christoph Wolff in Notes Vol 49 No 2 December 1992 pp 508 510 Geck 2006 Geck 1993 OCLC 907016747 Bach Archiv 2008 jsbach biografie online at jsbach de website Retrieved 14 March 2021 Williams 2004 Williams 2007 Bach A Musical Biography at Cambridge University Press website Gardiner 2013 Schulenberg 2020 Biography Special studies at www wbr bach cantatas wbr com Johann Sebastian Bach Character at Internet Movie Database website Mein Name ist Bach at www wbr swissfilms wbr ch My Name Is Bach at www wbr filmaffinity Sebastian Bach the animated series Biographies EditDenis Arnold Bach Oxford University Press 1984 ISBN 019287554X Bach Archiv Leipzig Kalendarium zur Lebensgeschichte Johann Sebastian Bachs 1970 Revised edition by Andreas Glockner 2008 ISBN 9783899480948 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola Nekrolog full title VI Denkmal dreyer verstorbenen Mitglieder der Societat der musikalischen Wissenschafften C Der dritte und letzte ist der im Orgelspielen Weltberuhmte HochEdle Herr Johann Sebastian Bach Koniglich Pohlnischer und Churfurstlich Sachsicher Hofcompositeur und Musikdirector in Leipzig pp 158 176 in Lorenz Christoph Mizler s Musikalische Bibliothek de Volume IV No 1 Leipzig Mizlerischer Bucherverlag 1754 Alberto Basso Frau Musika La vita e le opere di J S Bach Turin EDT Volume 1 Le origini familiari l ambiente luterano gli anni giovanili Weimar e Kothen 1685 1723 1979 ISBN 88 7063 011 0 Volume 2 Lipsia e le opere de la maturita 1723 1750 1983 ISBN 88 7063 028 5 Batka Richard 1892 J S Bach Musiker Biographien in German Vol 15 Leipzig Reclam Karl Hermann Bitter Johann Sebastian Bach Berlin Schneider 1865 Vol 1 Vol 2 Abridged translation by Janet Elizabeth Kay Shuttleworth London Houlston 1873 Second revised and enlarged edition in 4 volumes Berlin Baensch 1880 OCLC 318374312 1881 print Baensch Vol 1 Vol 2 Vol 3 Vol 4 1978 DDR Barenreiter reprint in 2 volumes facsimiles OCLC 679929712 680128546 Walter Blankenburg editor Johann Sebastian Bach Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1970 OCLC 1060904 Malcolm Boyd Bach London J M Dent 1983 ISBN 9780460044660 Oxford Press republication 2006 Piero Buscaroli Bach Milano A Mondadori 1985 OCLC 13499133 John Butt editor The Cambridge companion to Bach Cambridge University Press 1997 ISBN 9780521587808 Roland de Cande fr Jean Sebastien Bach Paris Seuil 1984 ISBN 9782020085052 A E Cherbuliez de Johann Sebastian Bach Sein Leben und sein Werk Olten Otto Walter 1946 Hans Theodore David and Arthur Mendel editors The Bach Reader A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents New York W W Norton 1945 OCLC 219802687 Revised as The New Bach Reader A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents by Christoph Wolff 1998 ISBN 9780393045581 Klaus Eidam de Das wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach Piper 1999 ISBN 3492040799 Translated as The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach New York Basic Books 2001 ISBN 9780465018611 Werner Felix Johann Sebastian Bach Leipzig Deutscher Verlag fur Musik 1984 OCLC 750950924 English translation London Orbis New York W W Norton 1985 Johann Nikolaus Forkel Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben Kunst und Kunstwerke Fur patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst Leipzig Hoffmeister und Kuhnel 1802 English translation with notes and appendices by Charles Sanford Terry Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work New York Harcourt Brace and Howe London Constable 1920 e version at Gutenberg org Edited by Max Friedrich Schneider de notes and appendices based on among others Terry s Bach biography Uber Joh Seb Bachs Leben Kunst und Kunstwerke Basel Hardimann 1946 OCLC 884470080 600527458 John Eliot Gardiner Music in the castle of heaven 2013 UK Music in the Castle of Heaven A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach Penguin UK ISBN 9781846147210 London Allen Lane ISBN 9780713996623 US Bach Music in the Castle of Heaven New York Alfred A Knopf ISBN 9780385351980 Martin Geck Johann Sebastian Bach mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten Rowohlt 1993 ISBN 9783499505119 Translation by Anthea Bell based on the 6th German edition 2000 with an introduction by John Butt Bach London Haus Publishing 2003 ISBN 9781904341161 Martin Geck Bach Leben und Werk Rowohlt 2000 ISBN 9783498024833 Translated by John Hargraves Johann Sebastian Bach Life and Work Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006 ISBN 9780151006489 Karl and Irene Geiringer Johann Sebastian Bach The Culmination of An Era New York Oxford University Press London George Allen amp Unwin 1966 Wilibald Gurlitt Johann Sebastian Bach der Meister und sein Werk Berlin Furche 1936 OCLC 612001760 English translation Concordia 1957 OCLC 742170817 Reprinted by Da Capo 1986 ISBN 9780306762628 Enlarged 5th edition Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1980 ISBN 9783761815342 Maarten t Hart Johann Sebastian Bach De Arbeiderspers 2000 ISBN 9789029576840 Carl L Hilgenfeldt Johann Sebastian Bach s Leben Wirken und Werke ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts Leipzig Friedrich Hofmeister 1850 Reginald Lane Poole Sebastian Bach London Sampson Low Marston Searle amp Rivington 1882 In the early 20th century republished by Sampson Low Marston amp Co as Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 1750 with a foreword by Francesco Berger OCLC 317890815 5526964 Republished Nabu Press 2012 ISBN 978 1278440545 Esther Meynell The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach London Chatto amp Windus New York Doubleday Page amp Co 1925 OCLC 613081920 Russell Hancock Miles Johann Sebastian Bach an Introduction to His Life and Works Prentice Hall 1962 Werner Neumann Auf den Lebenswegen Johann Sebastian Bachs Berlin Verlag der Nation 1953 OCLC 715957084 Fourth improved German edition 1962 OCLC 253348932 Werner Neumann Bach Eine Bildbiographie Berlin Deutsche Buch Gemeinschaft 1960 OCLC 5116231 Revised edition Munchen Kindler 1961 OCLC 271067638 Translated by Stefan de Haan Bach A Pictorial Biography New York Viking Press London Thames and Hudson 1961 Bach and his World London Thames and Hudson 1961 From 1969 revised editions under both titles e g Thames amp Hudson 1970 Hubert Parry Johann Sebastian Bach The Story of the Development of a Great Personality New York G P Putnam s Sons London The Knickerbocker Press 1909 Andre Pirro J S Bach Paris Felix Alcan 1906 OCLC 842307554 Third edition 1910 Revised edition 1949 OCLC 459516149 Translated by Mervyn Savil J S Bach New York Orion Press 1957 OCLC 16448996 Edward Francis Rimbault Johann Sebastian Bach his life and writings Adapted from the German of Hilgenfeldt and Forkel With additions from original sources London Metzler amp co 1869 Joh Carl Schauer Joh Seb Bach s Lebensbild Eine Denkschrift auf seinem 100 jahrigen Todestag den 28 Jul 1850 aus Thuringen seinem Vaterlande Jena F Luden 1850 Barbara Schwendowius and Wolfgang Domling editors Johann Sebastian Bach Zeit Leben Wirken Barenreiter 1976 ISBN 9783761805466 Translated as Johann Sebastian Bach Life Times Influence Kassel Barenreiter 1977 ISBN 9783761805893 David Schulenberg Bach Oxford University Press 2000 Albert Schweitzer J S Bach le musicien poete Preface by Charles Marie Widor Leipzig Breitkopf amp Hartel 1905 Enlarged German edition J S Bach Leipzig Breitkopf amp Hartel 1908 English translation in two volumes by Ernest Newman based on the 1908 German edition with alterations and additions by Schweitzer J S Bach London Breitkopf amp Hartel 1911 Volume 1 Volume 2 Reissued in 1923 by A amp C Black reprinted 1935 Volume 1 Volume 2 Philipp Spitta Johann Sebastian Bach Erster Band Book I IV Leipzig Breitkopf amp Hartel 1873 Third print 1921 at Archive org Zweiter Band Book V VI Leipzig Breitkopf amp Hartel 1880 Third print 1921 at Archive org Johann Sebastian Bach His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany 1685 1750 in three volumes Translated by Clara Bell and J A Fuller Maitland Novello amp Co 1884 1885 1899 edition Vol 1 Book I III Vol 2 Book IV V Vol 3 Book VI at Archive org 1992 republication of the 1952 Dover edition with Bibliographical Note by Saul Novack Vol 1 Book I III Charles Sanford Terry Bach A Biography Oxford University Press 1928 OCLC 912873095 893564008 902573683 Second and revised edition 1933 at HathiTrust Many reprints including Kessinger 2010 ISBN 9781161377859 and Literary Licensing 2013 ISBN 9781494101183 Peter Williams The Life of Bach Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 9780521533744 Peter Williams J S Bach A Life in Music Cambridge University Press 2007 ISBN 9781139461191 Christoph Wolff Bach Essays on His Life and Music Cambridge Massachusetts Harvard University Press 1991 ISBN 9780674059269 4th reprint 1999 Christoph Wolff Johann Sebastian Bach The Learned Musician Oxford University Press 2000 ISBN 0 393 04825 XExternal links EditJohann Sebastian Bach at Wikipedia s sister projects Quotations from Wikiquote Texts from Wikisource J S Bach biography and Bibliography F Biography at www wbr bach cantatas wbr com Johann Sebastian Bach s life 1685 1750 at www wbr let wbr rug wbr nl Michael and Lawrence Sartorius Johann Sebastian Bach a detailed informative biography at www wbr baroquemusic wbr org Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach amp oldid 1077059442 Cherbuliez, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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