Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750 — Volume II
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- Title
- Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685–1750 — Volume II
- Author
- Philipp Spitta
- Translator
- Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller Maitland
- Publisher
- Novello, Ewer & Co.
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1884–1885
- Language
- English, translated from German
- Type
- Monumental scholarly biography / works study
- Notes
- Second English volume; covers central professional and compositional development.
SCOPE & CONTENT
Volume II develops the central phases of Bach’s career and gives extended attention to genre, compositional technique and institutional circumstance. Spitta’s method repeatedly connects individual works with documentary events, employers, liturgical function and stylistic development.
RESEARCH VALUE
Particularly useful for historiography and nineteenth-century analytical reception, the volume should be read alongside the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, Bach-Dokumente and modern chronology. Its analytical prose still shows how profoundly Spitta shaped the categories through which later generations understood Bach.
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- Catalogue completeness
- 6 / 10 core bibliographic fields