J.S. Bach: A Life in Music.(Book review)

Fontes Artis Musicae | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

J.S. Bach: A Life in Music. By Peter Williams. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [xi, 405 p. ISBN 0-521-87074-7] $35.

The latest book by Peter Williams, J.S. Bach: A Life in Music, expands on an earlier biography written as part of Cambridge's Musical Lives series. As Williams explains in the preface, his study uses the Obituary (Nekrolog) written by Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel and his student Johann Friedrich Agricola as "a thread leading through the maze of fact and conjecture" (p. viii) about Bach's life and work. As biographies tend ...

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