Johann Sebastian Bach : his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 / Philipp Spitta ; translated from the German by Clara Bell and J.A. Fuller-Maitland. [print]

"Not merely ... a translation, but ... a revised and improved edition."

"Musical supplement": volume 3, pages 363-405.

Includes bibliographical references.

Book I. Bach's ancestors : I. The Bach family from 1550-1626 -- II. The Bachs of Erfurt -- III. Heinrich Bach and his sons -- IV. Johann Christoph Bach and Johann Michael Bach -- V. Instrumental works of Christoph and Michael Bach -- Virgin Islands Johann Christoph Bach's sons -- Virgin IslandsI. Christoph Bach and his sons Book II. The childhood and early years of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1707 : I. Early days, education, Ohrdruf and Luneberg, 1685 to 1703 -- II. Life at Weimar and Arnstadt, 1703-4, influence of Kuhnau, works for clavier and organ -- III. Visit to Lubeck, Buxtehude and his style, influence on Bach, 1704-5 -- IV. Bach's return to Arnstadt, and dispute with the consistory, his marriage with his cousin Book III. The first ten years of Bach's "mastership" : I. Bach at Muhlhausen, his religious opinions -- II. Bach at Weimar, his friends and companions -- III. The Weimar period, organ music, concertos, cantatas, etc. -- IV. Church music, analysis of the cantata form -- V. Bach's visits to various towns, some of his pupils -- VI. Cantatas written at Weimar to texts by Franck -- VII. At Meningen: Johann Ludwig Bach, at Dresden: organ works of the later Weimar period. Book IV. Cothen, 1717-1723 : I. Arrival at Cothen, death of Bach's first wife and journey to Hamburg in 1720, Reinken, Bach and Handel as organ-players -- II. Bach's clavier music, toccatas, his reform in fingering, adjustment of pitch, invention of the pianoforte, Bach as a teacher, the clavier-buchlein, inventionen und sinfonien -- III. Bach as a violinist, the suite and the sonata, works for violin, violoncello, flute, etc. -- IV. Bach's second marriage, change of posts, the French suites, the Wolhtemperirte Clavier Book V. Leipzig, 1723-1734 : I. Bach's appointment and installation as cantor at Leipzig -- II. The Thomasschule, duties of the cantor, state of music in Leipzig -- III. Bach's official duties as cantor, his dispute with the town council, and endeavours to improve the condition of the music, his letter to Erdmann, Gesner's appointment as rector of the school -- IV. The plan and arrangement of the church services in Leipzig, music used in it; the organs and Bach's treatment of accompaniments, difficulties of pitch and tune -- V. Kuhnau, the church cantata, texts by Neumeister and Picander, comparison of their merits, Bach's church cantatas, the "Magnificat" -- VI. Bach's cantatas (continued) -- VII. Passion music before Bach, the St. John Passion, the St. Matthew Passion -- VIII. Bach's compositions for Christmas, Easter, and Ascension -- IX. Bach's motets -- X. "Occasional" compositions.

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