The New Bach Reader
A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents
Published on 17. April 1998
Book
Hardback
608 pages
978-0-393-04558-1 (ISBN)
Description
Reveals the life and career of Johann Sebastian Bach through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records relating to his personal and professional life.
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Edition
Subsequent
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1016 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-04558-1 (9780393045581)
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Previous edition
Hans Theodor David | A. Mendel
BACH READER PA
Book
05/1966
WW Norton & Co
€33.56
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Persons
Christoph Wolff is Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, where he taught from 1976 to 2012. A former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany, he is the author of numerous works of music history including Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791, winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. Wolff lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.