Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician

The American Music Teacher | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff WW Norton & Company, (500 Sth Ave., New York, NY 10110), 2000. 599 pp., $39.95 cloth.

Generally speaking, there are two classes of biography with any prospect of outliving their authors: those penned by personal friends or colleagues who imbue their observations with the immediacy of a firstperson narrative, such as Wasielewski (Life ofRobert Schumann) or Mrs. Gaskell (Life of Charlotte Bronte), and those even rarer volumes, like David Cecil's Life of

Melbourne, that are the product of a gifted stylist capable of capturing ...

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