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Johann Sebastian Bach : his life in pictures and documents / Hans Conrad Fischer ; English translation by Silvia Lutz ; editors, Christopher Pipe and Tim Dowley.

By: Fischer, Hans Conrad, 1926- [author].
Contributor(s): Lutz, Silvia [translator.] | Pipe, Christopher [editor.] | Dowley, Tim [editor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Holzgerlingen, Germany : Hänssler, [2000]Edition: Redesigned edition.Description: 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).Content type: text | performed music Media type: unmediated | audio Carrier type: volume | audio discISBN: 3775134387 (hardback).Contained works: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Works. Selections. 2000.Subject(s): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 | Composers -- Germany -- BiographyDDC classification: 780.92 BAC
Contents:
Background and childhood -- Youth and first years -- Muhlhausen -- Weimar -- Cothen -- Bach becomes cantor of St. Thomas's -- Life in Leipzig -- Bach's family -- School and everyday life -- Bach and the kings -- Bach's service in the church -- SDG: Soli Deo Gloria.
[CD] Capriccio sopra la lontananza del fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992. Aria di postiglione : fuga all'imitatione di posta -- Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565 -- Cantata, Gott ist mein Konig, BWV 71. Gott ist mein Konig von altersher -- Toccata E minor, BWV 914. Fuga -- Kyrie eleison, Christe du Lamm Gottes : BWV 233a -- Orgelbuchlein. Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625 -- Brandenburg concerto no. 2, BWV 1047. Allegro -- Partita in B minor for violin solo, BWV 1002. Sarabande ; Double -- Clavier-Buchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, from 1720. Prelude in C major, BWV 846 & C minor, BWV 847 (= Well-tempered clavier part 1) -- St. John passion, BWV 245. Herr, unser Herrscher -- Sonata for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034. Allegro -- St. Matthew passion, BWV 244. Und von der sechsten Stunde ; Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden -- Prelude, fugue and allegro in E flat major [BWV 998]. Allegro -- Musical offering, BWV 1079. Canons 1-3 -- The art of fugue, BWV 1080. Contrapunctus I -- Organ chorale, Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit : BWV 668 -- Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Confiteor ; Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum.
Summary: CD extracts are from the 172 CDs of Edition Bachakademie, the first and only complete recording of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Accompanying compact disc ("A musical journey through the life of Johann Sebastian Bach") presents excerpts from the 172-disc series, Hanssler Edition Bachakademie; various performers.

Complete contents of the CD, with performer credits, on end flyleaf.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Background and childhood -- Youth and first years -- Muhlhausen -- Weimar -- Cothen -- Bach becomes cantor of St. Thomas's -- Life in Leipzig -- Bach's family -- School and everyday life -- Bach and the kings -- Bach's service in the church -- SDG: Soli Deo Gloria.

[CD] Capriccio sopra la lontananza del fratello dilettissimo, BWV 992. Aria di postiglione : fuga all'imitatione di posta -- Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565 -- Cantata, Gott ist mein Konig, BWV 71. Gott ist mein Konig von altersher -- Toccata E minor, BWV 914. Fuga -- Kyrie eleison, Christe du Lamm Gottes : BWV 233a -- Orgelbuchlein. Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 625 -- Brandenburg concerto no. 2, BWV 1047. Allegro -- Partita in B minor for violin solo, BWV 1002. Sarabande ; Double -- Clavier-Buchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, from 1720. Prelude in C major, BWV 846 & C minor, BWV 847 (= Well-tempered clavier part 1) -- St. John passion, BWV 245. Herr, unser Herrscher -- Sonata for flute and basso continuo, BWV 1034. Allegro -- St. Matthew passion, BWV 244. Und von der sechsten Stunde ; Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden -- Prelude, fugue and allegro in E flat major [BWV 998]. Allegro -- Musical offering, BWV 1079. Canons 1-3 -- The art of fugue, BWV 1080. Contrapunctus I -- Organ chorale, Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit : BWV 668 -- Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Confiteor ; Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum.

CD extracts are from the 172 CDs of Edition Bachakademie, the first and only complete recording of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.