Research Catalog

Title

The Bach family : seven generations of creative genius / Karl Geiringer, in collaboration with Irene Geiringer.

Author

Geiringer, Karl, 1899-1989.

Publication

London : Allen & Unwin, 1954.

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Additional Authors

Geiringer, Irene.

Description

xiv, 514 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims., map, music; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bach family
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "Index of compositions by members of the Bach family": p. [506]-514.
• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 490-495.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART ONE: The Rise of the Bach Family and the First Great Achievements -- Introduction: Ordeal in Germany -- A Miller, A Jester, A Piper (Veit, Hans, Caspar Bach) -- The Founder of the Erfurt Dynasty -- Two Bachs at Arnstadt -- Heinrich's Two Great Sons (Johann Chistoph and Johann Michael Bach -- The Triple Team of Bach Brother -- PART TWO: Expansion and Culmination -- Introduction: Particularism and Iniversalism in Germany -- The Jena and the Muhlhausen Bach (Johann Nicolaus and Johann Friedrich Bach) -- The Descendenant of Johann Bach -- The Meiningen Bachs -- Johan Sebastian Bach -- Apprenticeship (1685-1703) -- Years of Growth (1703-1708) -- The Grest Organist (1708-1717) -- Court COnductor and Princely Frien (1717-1723) -- Thomas Cantor and Direcot Musices at Leipaig -- Sebastian and His Family -- The Music of Johann Sebastian Mach -- Works of Voices and Insturments -- Works for the Organ Solo -- Works for the Clavier Solo -- Works for String and Wind Instrument; Concertos -- PART THREE: The Last Great Achievements and the Decline of the Bach Family -- Introduction: Rococo and Classicism -- The Halle Bach (Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) -- The Berlin and Hamburg Bach (Carl Philip Emanuel Bach) -- The Buckeburg Bach (Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach) -- The Milan and London Bach (Johann Christian Bach) -- Two Painters at Meiningen (Gottlieb Friedrich and Johann Philipp Bach) -- Bachs at Eisenach (Johann Ernst and Johann Georg Bach) -- Sebastian's Children and the Bach Family -- Two Grandsons of Sebastian (Johann Sebastian II and Wilhelm Friendrich Ernst Bach).

LCCN

^^^54014632^

OCLC

• 599914
• SCSB-9960773

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library