Bach's Chorals, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Bach's Chorals, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Sanford Terry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bach's Chorals, Vol. 2 During his first eighteen months at Leipzig Bach wrote more than twenty Sunday Cantatas, besides two sacred Cantatas for special occasions. See Albert Schweitzer, S. Bach (translated by Ernest Newman, 2 vols., London, 11. 164. Bach wrote about seventy Cantatas after 1734 (see list infra, p. Very nearly half of which are assigned to the years 17 35 - 36 (schweitzer, 11. In 1735 alone no less than twenty Cantatas were composed by him (spitta, 111. With the exception, perhaps, of a single Sunday, he wrote a new Cantata for every Sunday and Festival between Easter and Whitsuntide in that year (ibid. 111. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.