Johann Sebastian Bach as his world knew him / by Otto L. Bettmann ; foreword by Martin Bookspan.

Author/creator Bettmann, Otto
Format Book
Publication InfoSecaucus, NJ : Carol Pub. Group, ©1995.
Descriptionxxviii, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, music ; 27 cm
Subjects
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750--Encyclopedias.

Contents Abendmusik -- Acclaim -- Acoustician -- Anhalt-Cothen -- Art galant -- B-A-C-H -- Banter -- Baroque -- Biographers -- Blindness -- Bookman -- Calligrapher -- Cantor or Capellmeister -- Catholicism -- Collegium musicum -- Composing -- Copying -- The dance -- Daughters -- Defending his domain -- Delegator -- Detractors -- Education -- Equanimity -- Eroticism -- Extraterrestrial -- Flattering the mighty -- Frederick the Great -- Friendships -- Fugal Wizardry -- Gebrauchsmusik -- Gesamt-Ausgabe -- Goethe and Bach -- Goldberg variations -- A great good man -- Handel -- Hauptmusik -- Heirs -- Helpmate -- Hometown -- Imprisonment -- Instruments to the fore -- Kafee Kantate -- Keyboard expert -- The last Bach -- Leipzig ordeal -- Librettists -- The man and his music -- Money matters -- Music publisher -- Newness -- Numerology -- Oldest son -- Operatic echoes -- Organist supreme -- Pageantry -- Paternal devotion -- Pictorialism -- Postmortem -- Prades Festival -- Precisionist -- Quaffing -- Quodlibet -- Radiant masterwork -- Recycling -- Revival -- Rhetorician -- Rhythm -- Secretiveness -- Skull -- Songs of faith -- Summation works -- Telemann -- Theory and practice -- Universality -- Vienna Bach circle -- Violinist -- Virtuoso -- Vivaldi -- Wanderlust -- Ye trumpets resound -- Zeitgeist.
Abstract Bach, the "holy cantor" church musician, has been often described in books. But the real Bach, the "eminently astute manager of his life," is frequently buried in endless, uninteresting detail. In contrast, this book, shows Bach with all his human qualities: the capable management of his vast family - two wives and twenty children - Bach's humor, his considerable business acumen, the all too human touches of eroticism, even his attitude toward death. With illustrations throughout and organized as an A to Z compendium of Bach's life and his glorious music, this book covers every significant subject about the master, including his faith and secretiveness, his interests in numerology and calligraphy, his roles as cantor and capellmeister, and more. Bettmann explains why for nearly eighty years after the death of the world's greatest composer, Bach sank into oblivion.
General note"A Birch Lane Press book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
LCCN 94041052
ISBN1559722797 (hardcover)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.B1 B3938 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold