The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle
Annette Richards, "The Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle"
English | ISBN: 022680626X | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 21 MB
English | ISBN: 022680626X | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach’s second son.
One of the most celebrated German composers of the eighteenth century, C. P. E. Bach spent decades assembling an extensive portrait collection of some four hundred music-related items—from oil paintings to engraved prints. The collection was dispersed after Bach’s death in 1788, but with Annette Richards’s painstaking reconstruction, the portraits once again present a vivid panorama of music history and culture, reanimating the sensibility and humor of Bach’s time. Far more than a mere multitude of faces, Richards argues, the collection was a major part of the composer’s work that sought to establish music as an object of aesthetic, philosophical, and historical study.
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