Johann Sebastian Bach (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carmel Berman Reingold
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1685–1750
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Johann Sebastian Bach, Maria Barbara Bach, Anna Magdalena Bach, Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, Johann August Ernesti
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Music or musicians, Eighteenth century, Composers, Germany or German people, Biography, Organs, organ music, or organists
- Locales: Germany
Form and Content
Carmel Berman Reingold’s Johann Sebastian Bach: Revolutionary of Music is a linear biography that follows the composer’s life from his birth in Eisenach to his death sixty-five years later in Leipzig. The book is as valuable for its vivid presentation of Bach’s life and his influence on music during and after his lifetime as it is for its portrayal of the historical, social, and cultural conditions in Germany at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries. The first seven chapters correspond to the major stations in...
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