Johann Sebastian Bach Volume II. This monumental study of Johann Sebastian Bach ranks among the great classics of musicology. Since its first publication in 1873-80, it has remained the basic work on Bach and the foundation of later research and study. The three-part treatment describes in chronological sequence practically everything that is known of the composer's life: his ancestry, his immediate family, his associations, his employers, and the countless occasions on which his musical genius emerged. Author Philipp Spitta accompanies this biographical material with quotations from primary sources: correspondence, family records, diaries, official documents, and more. In addition to biographical data, Spitta reviews Bach's musical production, with analyses of more than 500 pieces, covering all the important works. More than 450 musical excerpts are included in the main text, and a 43-page musical supplement illustrates longer passages. Despite the scholarly nature of this work, it also has the rare distinction of being a study that can be read with considerable enjoyment and great profit by every serious music lover, with or without a substantial background in the history of music or musical theory.

Bach Documents Vol. 9-What did Johann Sebastian Bach?s world look like?Which people were close to him? Who did he work with?What writings document his life and work?This lavish picture book helps to bridge the 300-year historical gap and vividly brings to life Bach?s personal history.The illustrations mostly in colour present Bach?s life from his beginnings in Eisenach Ohrdruf and Lüneburg through his years as an organist in Arnstadt Mühlhausen and Weimar and his period as Kapellmeister in Cöthen to his tenure in Leipzig as music director and cantor at St. Thomas?s.Expanded legends directly explain the meaning of each picture without the reader having to refer toanother section in the book. Short introductions to the various periods of Bach?s life an essay on issues of the Bach iconography as well as a detailed Appendix round off the volume.Series Bach Documents Volume 9 /li>New Bach Edition. Revised Edition (NBA rev) 5 (Supplement)Format 469 pages; 30 5 x 25 0 cm