Encyclopedia Entries
Questions of
polyphonic baroque music
Reading
Writing available on the net
Commentaries
- 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry (http://www.mckeeth.org/wikilinks/bach1911.html)
- Bach-Archiv Leipzig (http://www.bach-leipzig.de/)
- J. S. Bach bibliography on the web (http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/~tomita/bachbib)
- J. S. Bach's Education and Career (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/life.html)
- J.S.Bach cantatas (http://www.bach-cantatas.com/) extensive references including cantatas by BWV number.
- Free recordings of Bach's Cantata 140 and other audio examples (http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/Bach/)
- Free recordings of Bach's 15 Three-Part Inventions (Sinfonias) for keyboard (http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/Pandora/vorbis/piano/Hokanson/Master_Works/index.html)
The classic study of his life and music is by P. Spitta (tr. 1884–85, repr. 1972), and A. Schweitzer’s study (tr. 1911, repr. 1962) has attracted much attention. See also biographies by K. and I. Geiringer (1966), C. S. Terry (1928, repr. 1988), and C. Wolff (2000); studies by J. N. Forkel (tr. 1920, repr. 1970), R. L. Marshall (2 vol., 1972), and B. Schwendowius and W. Domling, ed. (1984); H. T. David and A. Mendel, The Bach Reader (1945, rev. ed. 1966); O. L. Bettmann, Johann Sebastian Bach as His World Knew Him (1995).