Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
- Author
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Subject
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Type
- Biography / composer / performance-informed study
SCOPE & CONTENT
This expanded dossier treats Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach as a substantial source on Johann Sebastian Bach. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony, retrospective recollection and later biographical reconstruction, so that the book can be used as evidence rather than merely as anecdote.
RESEARCH VALUE
For composer research, the dossier connects life chronology with compositional development, premieres, publishers, performers, cultural context and reception. It is intended to complement work-level analysis and primary documents, and it flags the historiographical position of the book whenever later scholarship has revised older biographical assumptions.
BIOGRAPHICAL AND DOCUMENTARY SCOPE
The record preserves title, author, subject and edition-level identifiers so that the source can be retrieved even when the physical PDF filename is abbreviated. The underlying document is never renamed or altered by this enrichment layer.
RESEARCH VALUE
The dossier treats biography as evidence for chronology, repertory, institutions, performance practice and reception. Verified catalogue values are retained; curated values are copied only into empty fields when a physical attachment can be matched safely.
- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields