This is a completely revised 2003 edition of volumes I and II of The Organ Music of J. S. Bach (1980), a bestselling title, which has subsequently become a clas

"Published in cooperation with the American Bach Society."

Bach's organ works--the best-known of all music ever written for the instrument--have been the subject of a great variety of interpretations, all too often base

" . . . a valuable book of scholarly yet highly readable studies . . . every organist and anyone interested in the music of J. S. Bach should have it." —Early