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Article: The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents.(Review)
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- June 1, 1999
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Edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel. Revised and enlarged by Christoph Wolff. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998. [xxxix, 551 p. ISBN 0-393-04558-7. $35.]
The Bach Reader, edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel and first published in 1945, was a landmark study in many respects. It was the most significant portrait of a composer up to that time to be drawn primarily from letters and contemporary documents. Many of the writings were appearing for the first time in print, and virtually all were new to the English-speaking readership. The vision of Johann Sebastian Bach and its veracity were so compelling that The Bach Reader remained an important Bach ...