Free Download Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Audiobook)
English | January 22, 2019 | ASIN: B07MM2KSWX | M4B@64 kbps | 21h 29m | 585 MB
Author: Christoph Wolff | Narrator: John Pruden
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, this landmark book was revised in 2013 to include new knowledge discovered after its initial publication.
Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, author Christoph Wolff presents a new picture that brings to life this towering figure of the Baroque era. This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship.
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