Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered items, r[...]

Such questions concern the role of the cantatas in Bach's compositional development, musical models for the works, and performance practice during the composer's lifetime. In this book, Bach scholars place the works in their historical and biographical context, guiding the reader through their liter[...]

What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:"A musical blight""A one-man plague""History's most justifiably neglected composer""The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in o[...]

Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. Jonathan Livingston Seagull was such a book. Richard Bach's unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written [...]

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?



"Instead of soaring and diving though space, passengers on this flight must be prepared to cruise slowly, making several stops to look at their motivation and lifestyles as the Bachs look [...]

Explains football rules, shows you how to approach coaching, and gives you pointers on improving team skills and encouraging good sportsmanship. This guide helps you: understand rules; develop a coaching philosophy; teach football fundamentals; run great training sessions; lead your team during a ga[...]

Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's "J. S. Bach" is one of the great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work. Its influence on the subseque[...]

This new gathering of the world's greatest classical themes follows Bergerac's highly successful "My First Book of Classical Music." Here are ever-popular themes from the symphonies, concertos, and operas of such masters as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, and many[...]

This volume collects four of J. S. Bach's keyboard masterpieces -- Goldberg Variations, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, The Art of the Fugue, and Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra in D Minor -- in arrangements by pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni. Includes Busoni's original system of keyboard[...]

Bach: The Art Of Fugue And A Companion To The Art Of Fugue features sheet music for the complete score of J. S. Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) in this edition prepared by Donald Francis Tovey.

Originally published by Oxford University Press in 1931, Tovey's edition presents the[...]

Peter Williams approaches afresh the life and music of arguably the most studied of all composers, interpreting both Bach's life by deconstructing his original obituary in the light of more recent information and his music by evaluating his priorities and irrepressible creative energy. How, even tho[...]