J.S. Bach: A Life in Music \u00a0Peter Williams Cambridge University Press: 978-0-521-30683-6 \/ 405pp \/ \u00a316.99<\/p>\n
The Journal of the London Bach Society has already described Peter Williams\u2019 \u2018innovative biography as \u2018imaginative and fresh\u2019, and Williams (himself an acclaimed scholar and performer) has illuminated new aspects of the composer\u2019s life, utilising (among other things) a new examination of Bach\u2019s obituary, integrating recently discovered information.<\/p>\n
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We are shown the composer’s parlous early life as an orphan and his comfortable, bourgeois adulthood as a family man (with that prodigally gifted cadre of offspring). Perhaps the heart of the book is something surprising \u2013 a new way to regard Bach\u2019s genesis as composer and performer. Succeeding biographies have a new benchmark to aspire to.<\/p>\n
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J.S. Bach: A Life in Music \u00a0Peter Williams Cambridge University Press: 978-0-521-30683-6 \/ 405pp \/ \u00a316.99 The Journal of the London Bach Society has already described Peter Williams\u2019 \u2018innovative biography as \u2018imaginative and fresh\u2019, and Williams (himself an acclaimed scholar … Continue reading