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Index
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Bibliographical References
i Background and EarlyYears (1685-1703) . . . . . .
2 Arnstadt, Miihlhausen (1703-8) Early Works 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3 Weimar (1708-17) . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Organ Music . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chorale Settings
Preludes and Fugues 6o
Miscellaneous Organ Works
5 Cothen (1717-23) . . . . . . . . . . . .
6 Orchestral, Instrumental, and Keyboard Music . . . .
Orchestral Suites
Instrumental Works
Keyboard Works
7 Leipzig (1723-30) . . . . . . . . . . .
8 Music for the Leipzig Liturgy . . . . . . . .
Cantatas
Motets and Magnificat
Passions
9 Leipzig (1730-41) . . . . . . . . . . .
io Parodies and Publications . . . . . . . . .
Oratorios and Masses
Harpsichord Concertos
The Clavier-Ubung
11 Leipzig (1742-50) . . . . . . . . . . .
12 Canons and Counterpoints . . . . . . . . .
13 The Bach Heritage . . . . . . . . . . .
A Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . .
B List of Works . . . . . . . . . . . .
C Personalia . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D Select Bibliography . . . . . . . . . .
General Index
Index of Bach's Works
The social, political, and religious climate of Thuringia tended to produce a particular type of mus
The nature and extent of Sebastian's musical training during these years remain natters for conjectu
and both Mizler's Obituary3
The reason for Sebastian's departure from Ohrdruf is conveyed in the phrase `ob defectuni hospitioru
and this is to be found in events that had taken place at the Klosterschule during the preceding two
This, however, was over thirty years after Bach was admitted to the school, and Koster has produce
harpsichord. Forkel, however, is imprecise on this point, and the Obituary, from which Spitta took h
The repertory of the Mettenchor was drawn from an unusually fine music library begun in 1555 by the
new' (NBR, 300). It has usually been assumed from this that Bach made fairly frequent journeys to Ce
ITUATED SOME TWENTY MILES SOUTH-WEST OF WEIMAR, ARNstadt was the principal town in the territory of
It was after a visit to Neideck Castle on 4 August 1705 that an incident occurred which provides the
Barbara Catharina and two of the other students, Hoffmann and Schuttwiirfel. Bach had to admit that
Opposed to Frohne in the controversy that had divided congregations in Miihlhausen for almost a deca
When Spitta first drew attention to the religious squabbles at Miihlhausen he did not, as has been s
It was indeed this `clinging to old fashions and customs' that caused Bach to experience hindrances
at the stranger who conducted himself so despotically in a position which, as far back as the memory
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