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We see Bachs life and his surroundings, from his birth in 1685 through his school years, and finally to his 27 year sojourn in Leipzig.
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J OHANN S EBASTIAN B ACH
ALSO BY CHRISTOPH WOLFF

BOOKS

Der Stile antico in der Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs

Bach-Studien: Gesammelte Reden und Aufstze von Friedrich Smend (ed.)

The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies of the Autograph Manuscripts (ed.)

The New Grove Bach Family

Bach-Bibliographie: Nachdruck der Verzeichnisse des Schrifttums ber Johann Sebastian Bach (ed.)

Orgel, Orgelmusik, und Orgelspiel: Festschrift Michael Schneider zum 75. Geburtstag (ed.)

Bach Compendium: analytisch-bibliographisches Repertorium der Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs (co-ed.)

A Life for New Music: Selected Papers of Paul Fromm (ed.)

Johann Sebastian Bachs Sptwerk und dessen Umfeld: Perspektiven und Probleme (ed.)

Johann Sebastian Bach und der sddeutsche Raum: Aspekte der Wirkungsgeschichte Bachs (co-ed.)

Bach: Essays on His Life and Music

Mozarts Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score

The World of the Bach Cantatas (ed.)

The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents (co-ed.)

Driven into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi Germany to the United States (co-ed.)

ber Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke: Aspekte musikalischer Biographie (ed.)

Die Gegenwart der musikalischen Vergangenheit: Meisterwerke in der Dirigentenwerkstatt (ed.)

EDITIONS OF WORKS BY BACH

The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080; Fourteen Canons, BWV 1087; Cantatas BWV 22, 23, 127, 159, and 182; Clavier-bung, Parts IIV; Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043; Goldberg Variations, BWV 988; Kyrie, BWV 233a; Mass in B minor, BWV 232; A Musical Offering, BWV 1079; Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection; Works for Two Harpsichords

EDITIONS OF WORKS BY MOZART

Horn Concerto, K. 370b + 371; Piano Concertos (complete); Rondos for Piano and Orchestra, K. 382, 386; Grande sestetto concertante (arrangement of K. 364); Die neugeborne Ros entzckt, K. Anh. 11a

OTHER EDITIONS

Anguish of Hell and Peace of Soul: A Collection of Sixteen Motets on Psalm 116; Johann Michael Bach, The Complete Organ Chorales; Dieterich Buxtehude, The Keyboard Works; Antonio Caldara, Magnificat; Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, 24 Polonaises in All Keys; Paul Hindemith, Cardillac, Op. 39

JOHANN
SEBASTIAN
BACH

The Learned Musician

CHRISTOPH WOLFF

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Copyright 2013, 2000 by Christoph Wolff

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolff, Christoph
Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician/Christoph Wolff.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-0-393-32256-4 pbk.

1. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 16851750. 2. ComposersGermanyBiography. I. Title.
ML410.B1 W793 2000
780'.92dc21
[B] 99-054364

ISBN 978-0-393-07595-3 ebook

W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
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W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 10 Coptic Street, London WC1A 1PU

For Barbara,
Katharina, Dorothea, and Stephanie

Contents

Springs of Musical Talent and Lifelong Influences
E ISENACH , 16851695


Laying the Foundations
O HRDRUF , 16951700


Bypassing a Musical Apprenticeship
F ROM L NEBURG TO W EIMAR , 17001703


Building a Reputation
O RGANIST IN A RNSTADT AND M HLHAUSEN , 17031708


Exploring Every Possible Artistry
C OURT O RGANIST AND C AMMER M USICUS IN W EIMAR , 17081714


Expanding Musical Horizons
C ONCERTMASTER IN W EIMAR , 17141717


Pursuing the Musical Contest for Superiority
C APELLMEISTER IN C THEN , 17171723


Redefining a Venerable Office
C ANTOR AND M USIC D IRECTOR IN L EIPZIG : T HE 1720s


Musician and Scholar
C OUNTERPOINT OF P RACTICE AND T HEORY


Traversing Conventional Boundaries
S PECIAL E NGAGEMENTS: THE 1730s


A Singing Bird and Carnations for the Lady of the House
D OMESTIC AND P ROFESSIONAL L IFE


Contemplating Past, Present, and Future
T HE F INAL D ECADE : T HE 1740s


Appendixes

GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS

Note: For bibliographic abbreviations, see Bibliography.


A

alto (voice)

B

bass (voice)

bc

basso continuo

bn

bassoon(s)

cemb

cembalo

cor

corno, corni

cto

continuo

D.

Doctor

div

divisi

fl

flute(s)

fg

fagotto, fagotti

gr.

groschen

instr

instrument(s)

M.

Magister

ob

oboe(s)

ob dam

oboe(s) damore

pf.

pfennig

rec

recorder(s)

rip

ripieno, ripieni

rthl., rtl.

reichst(h)aler

S

soprano (voice)

str

strings

T

tenor (voice)

ti

timpani

thlr., tlr

thaler, taler

tr

trumpet(s)

trb

trombone(s)

trav

transverse flute(s)

v

violin(s)

va

viola(s)

va d.g.

viola(s) da gamba

va dam

viola(s) damore

vc

violoncello(s)

vne

violone, violoni


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Frontispiece: Courtesy of William H. Scheide, Princeton, New Jersey; Pages 12, 52, 368, 369: Bachhaus Eisenach; 15, 128, 416: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preuischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung; 32: Evangelisch-lutherisches Pfarramt Ohrdruf; 38, 39, 45253: Archive-Museum for Literatur and Art, Kyiv; 56: Museum fr das Frstentum Lneburg, Lneburg; 65: Museum fr Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg; 76: Schlomuseum, Arnstadt; 80: Evangelisch-lutherisches Pfarramt, Arnstadt; 1 104, 106: Museum am Lindenbhl, Mhlhausen; 116: Stiftung Weimarer Klassik / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar; 120, 236, 241, 320, 321, 322: Bach-Archiv Leipzig; 146, 149: Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Schlomuseum, Weimar; 186, 190, 192: Bachgedenksttte im Schlo Kthen, Kthen; 267, 268, 304: Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde St. Thomas-Matthi, Leipzig; 266, 4003, 404, 405(both): Stadtarchiv, Leipzig; 390: Sothebys Holdings, London; 340, 359: Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Leipzig

List of Illustrations

Johann Sebastian Bach, painting by Elias Gottlob Haumann, 1748

Sun of Composers, by A. F. C. Kollmann, 1799

View of Eisenach, 1650

Johann Ambrosius Bach, c. 1685

Street map of Ohrdruf, c. 1710

Johann Christoph Bach, Meine Freundin, du bist schn, title page, c. 1740

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