Sebastian Bach :: CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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Bach’s Ancestry	1
CHAPTER II. 1685-1708.
His Youth and Apprenticeship—in an orchestra at Weimar—and as organist at Arnstadt and Muehlhausen:—Marriage	14
Early Compositions chiefly for Organ and Clavichord	21-42
CHAPTER III. 1708-1717.
Organist and Concertmeister at Weimar	29
The Organ Works	37-42
CHAPTER IV. 1717-1723.
Capellmeister at Coethen: Second Marriage	43
The Works for Clavichord, Chamber, and Orchestra	51-56
CHAPTER V. 1723-1730.
Cantor at Leipzig: the Music of Bach’s Household	58
CHAPTER VI. 1730-1734.
Bach’s Work at Leipzig	73
The Secular Cantatas	75-80
The Church Cantatas and Oratorios	80-86
The Motets	86-87
CHAPTER VII.
The Passion Music and the High Mass	88
CHAPTER VIII. 1734-1750.
Bach’s later years at Leipzig: his Death	103
The Great Collections of Fugues	111-116
CHAPTER IX.
Characteristic of Bach: Estimation in England	118
Pedigree of Musicians in the Family of Bach	128
Chronological List of Church Cantatas	131

SEBASTIAN BACH.

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