When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian’s grandson.
When this volume was originally published in 1954 it was the first complete history of the Bach family from the 16th Century miller Veit to Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), Johann Sebastian’s grandson. The author views the family as a whole and shows the characteristic similarities in their artistic and human attitudes as well as the most significant divergences. Equal stress is laid on the discussion of the personalities, against the swiftly changing historical scene, and on the music, for which the author was able to use vast, hitherto inaccessible material. Apart from describing the fascinating phenomenon of this musical family, the author gives a history of musical thought in the last 300 years.
Arvustused
Original Reviews of The Bach Family:
He has written a valuable work, which is also very readableAn enthralling recondite, and well-constructed volume. Scotsman
Well and often entertainingly set out in what will surely become one of the classics of musical history. Christian World
Part 1: The Rise of the Bach Family and the First Great Achievements
Introduction: Ordeal in Germany
1. A Miller, A Jester, A Piper
2. The Founder
of the Erfurt Dynasty
3. Two Bachs at Arnstadt. Musical Trends in the 17th
Century. The Compositions of Johann and Heinrich Bach.
4. Heinrichs Two
Great Sons. The Music of Johann Michael Bach. The Music of Johann Christoph
Bach.
5. The Triple Team of Bach Brothers. Part 2: Expansion and Culmination
(1700-1750) Introduction: Particularism and Universalism in Germany
1. The
Jena and the Mühlhausen Bach. The Music of Johann Nicolaus Bach.
2. The
Descendants of Johann Bach. The Music of Johann Bernhard Bach.
3. The
Meiningen Bachs. The Music of Johann Ludwig Bach.
4. Johann Sebastian Bach 1:
Apprenticeship (1685-1703) 2: Years of Growth (1703-1708) 3: The Great
Organist (1708-1717)
4. Court Conductor and Princely Friend (1717-1723)
5.
Thomas Cantor and Director Musices at Leipzig (1723-1750)
6. Sebastian and
His Family. The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Part 3: The Last Great
Achievements and the Decline of the Bach Family (1750-) Introduction: Rococo
and Classicism
1. The Halle Bach. The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
2.
The Berlin and Humburg Bach. The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
3. The
Bückerburg Bach. The Music of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach.
4. The Milan
and London Bach. The Music of Johann Christian Bach.
5. Two Painters at
Meiningen. The Works of Gottlieb Friedrich and Johann Philipp Bach
6. Bachs
at Eisenach. The Music of Johann Ernst Bach.
7. Sebastians Children and the
Bach Family.
8. Two Grandsons of Sebastian. The Music of Wilhelm Friedrich
Ernst Bach. Epilogue. Genealogical Table of the Bach Musicians.
Karl Geiringer (1899-1989) was an Austrian-American musicologist, prolific author and Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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