![]() The Learned Musician is an ambitious and intensely focused display of musical scholarship from Christoph Wolff and, to many, has replaced Spitta’s 3 Volume biography (1873-1880) as the new standard Bach biography. ![]() The Sun of Composers: A work by Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (1756-1829), a German-born composer, showing Bach at the centre the “man from whom all true musical wisdom proceeded”. What a shame, I'll have to immerse myself in Bach's music again! *sigh*įor Bach, the ultimate rationale for being a musician “to make a well-sounding harmony to the honor of God and the permissible delectation of the soul”. Well, I have recently been made aware of a companion book, 'Bach's Musical Universe', written by the same author which I thought might be useful information for anyone considering reading this. Update 25/03/22: I mention somewhere in this review that the one thing this book could've done with more of was a deeper analysis of some of Bach's greatest works. ![]()
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