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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Every famous piece of art has an origin story--even Bach's Goldberg Variations! When the richest dude in town can't sleep, he hires a much-less-rich dude named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg to play him lullabies on the harpsichord. Goldberg does an OK job, but as the Rich Dude hollers for Goldberg each night, he wakes up the whole town in the process. As the town gets sleepier and sleepier and grumpier and grumpier, Goldberg worries he may be out of a...
9) Bach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A simple biography of the man who composed such musical works as the "Brandenburg Concertos."
10) Reinventing Bach
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.
12) Bach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Chapters of the book alternate between biographical information and commentary on the work of J.S. Bach.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"Was Johann Sebastian Bach really a short-tempered organist who constantly fought with his superiors? Was he a composer whose ideas were largely derived from others? Did he fall completely out of fashion by the end of his life? These are but a few of the many legends that have grown up around the greatest musical genius of all time in the 250 years since his death. Klaus Eidam takes on the Bach scholars and corrects their inaccuracies, bringing an...
14) Introducing Bach
Author
Pub. Date
2001, c1995
Description
The life and times of the German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal to a school in distant Leipzig. Despite his father's insistence that he try not to think of his mother too much, Stefan is haunted by her absence, and, to make matters worse, he's bullied by his new classmates. But when the school's cantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, takes notice of his new pupil's beautiful singing voice and draws...