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Article: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician & Bach.(Review)
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician. By Christoph Wolff. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. [xvii, 599 p. ISBN 0-393-04825-X. $39.95.]
Bach. By Malcolm Boyd. 3d ed. (The Master Musicians.) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xvi, 312 p. ISBN 0-19-514222-5. $35.]
The year 2000 was a "Bach year" as these things are defined by the media, and although it followed by just fifteen years the previous such commemoration, it saw an even greater flood of encycyclopedias, recording projects, and biographical publications. Many of these will have short life spans and find little use, but that will assuredly not be the case with the two books ...