Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Spitta, Philipp

Johann Sebastian Bach his work and influence on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 Volume 1 Philipp Spitta; Translated by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller-Maitland - New York Dover Publications, Inc. 1951 - 656 p. - Johann Sebastian bach Volume 1 .

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 --
VI. Johann Christoph Bach's sons --
VII. 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.

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