Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work.(Book review)

The Christian Century | June 12, 2007| | Copyright

Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work. By Martin Geck. Harcourt, 7.52 pp., $40.00.

NO COMPOSER has more universal appeal than Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The plethora of concerts, festivals, recordings and publications that came in the wake of the Bach Anniversary Year of 2000 provides ample evidence. That outpouring is all the more telling since it came just 15 years after another Bach anniversary in 1985, which had called forth a similar quantity of celebratory events.

But Bach's music creates a problem for many who don't want to acknowledge the ...

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