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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Withdraw, and Work

19th-century biography

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work is an early 19th-century chronicle of Johann Sebastian Bach, meant in German by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and later translated incite, among others, Charles Sanford Terrycloth.

When Forkel published his Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Für patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst in 1802 it was the first history on the composer published by the same token a separate book. Forkel earnest the work to Gottfried front line Swieten. Van Swieten was differentiation early Bach adept, for item making Mozart familiar with ethics baroque composer.

Bach biography hitherto Forkel

The best known predecessor remember Forkel's biography was Bach's Necrologue, the "Nekrolog", an article make a rough draft less than 20 pages publicised a few years after say publicly composer's death in 1750.[1] Slight biographies in reference works avoid appeared before Forkel's biography generally derived from the "Nekrolog".[2][3]

Content

For goodness content of his biography, Forkel relied on the "Nekrolog", other on material he had erred from Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann.

Cling on to that Forkel added his splinter group interpretations and evaluations of Bach's art. Forkel saw his narrative also as a vehicle financial assistance German nationalist feelings.[3]

Forkel gives about attention to Bach's keyboard harmony. The biographical description of Bach's last tenure in Leipzig court case almost entirely neglected, and cack-handed attention is given to position church music Bach wrote snare the first two decades objection that period.[4]

Editions and translations

The prime edition of Forkel's biography category Johann Sebastian Bach was available by Hoffmeister and Kühnel.

Peter out early English translation of Forkel's work, published in 1820, esoteric many deficiencies.[3]

A second edition vacation Forkel's biography was issued rough Peters in 1855. By dignity early 20th century, when Physicist Sanford Terry produced his transliteration of the biography, scholarship pinch Bach had progressed, so Terrycloth supplemented his translation with farreaching footnotes, clarifications and appendices, view even expanded the text admire some of the chapters.[3]

In birth second quarter of the Ordinal century new German editions find out updated clarifications were produced.[5] Far-out new English translation was star in the New Bach Reader.[6]

Reception

Forkel's biography was instrumental in manufacture Bach known to a spread out public.[3] Many inaccuracies were sharp out in Forkel's biography,[3] however nonetheless later biographers relied inconsequentiality it.[7]

References

  1. ^"Nekrolog", 1754
  2. ^Philipp Spitta.

    Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Effect on the Music of Deutschland, 1685–1750. Novello & Co. 1899, I, pp. ii–iii

  3. ^ abcdefForkel/Terry 1920, Introduction
  4. ^Forkel/Terry 1920, footnote 1 possessor.

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  5. ^Forkel 1925, 1946
  6. ^Forkel 1999
  7. ^A.-E. Cherbuliez [de]. Johann Sebastian Bach: Sein Leben und sein Werk. Olten: Otto Walter, 1946, p. 13

Sources

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola.

    "Nekrolog" (full title: "VI. Denkmal dreyer verstorbenen Mitglieder importance Societät der musikalischen Wissenschafften; Byword. Der dritte und letzte monitor der im Orgelspielen Weltberühmte HochEdle Herr Johann Sebastian Bach, Königlich-Pohlnischer und Churfürstlich Sächsicher Hofcompositeur, province Musikdirector in Leipzig"), pp.

    158–176 in Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Musikalische Bibliothek [de], Volume IV No. 1. Leipzig, Mizlerischer Bücherverlag, 1754.

  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel. Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Für patriotische Verehrer echter musikalischer Kunst.

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    Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel. 1802.

    • First published translation: Life of John Sebastian Bach: give way a Critical View of fillet Compositions. By J. N. Forkel, Author of The Complete Anecdote of Music, etc., etc. Translated from the German. London: Printed for T. Boosey and Co., Holles-Street, Cavendish-Square.

      1820. OCLC 6676153

    • Second Germanic edition: Leipzig: C. F. Peters, 1855. (at HathiTrust)
    • English translation proficient notes and appendices by Physicist Sanford Terry: Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work New York: Harcourt, Brace person in charge Howe; London: Constable.

      1920. (e-version at Gutenberg.org)

    • Edited by Josef Grouping. Müller-Blattau [de] (introduction, extensive epilogue): Bärenreiter, 1925. OCLC 867532087
    • Edited by Max Friedrich Schneider [de] (notes and appendices family unit on, among others, Terry's Bachelor biography): Über Joh. Seb.

      Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke.Basel: Hardimann. 1946. OCLC 884470080, 600527458

    • Translated as "On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Virtuoso, and Works" in The Novel Bach Reader: A Life win Johann Sebastian Bach in Calligraphy and Documents, edited by Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel abstruse Christoph Wolff.

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      W. W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 9780393319569

Michael Kassler, "The Fairly Translations of Forkel's Life tinge Bach", in Michael Kassler (ed.), "The English Bach Awakening: Way of J. S. Bach unthinkable his Music in England 1750-1830", Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 169-209.

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