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Arranged alphabetically by main author |
A-1 |
The music maker: The life of Johann Sebastian Bach in story form |
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Author: Harry James Albus |
Language: English; ASIN: B0007FBUQG |
Eerdmans |
1950 |
UB / 93 pp |
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A-2 |
Bach |
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Author: Denis Arnold |
Language: English; ISBN: 0192875558 |
Oxford University Press |
1993 |
PB |
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B-1 |
Frau Musika: La vita e le opere di J.S. Bach Vol. 1 |

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Le origini familiari, l'ambiente luterano, gli anni giovanili, Weimar e Köthen (1685-1723) |
Author: Alberto Basso |
Language: Italian; ISBN: 8870630110 |
EDT, Turin, Italy |
1979 |
HC / 800 pp |
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B-2 |
Frau Musika: La vita e le opere di J.S. Bach Vol. 2 |

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Lipsia e le opere della maturità (1723-1750) |
Author: Alberto Basso |
Language: Italian; ISBN: 8870630285 |
EDT, Turin, Italy |
1983 |
HC / 992 pp |
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B-3 |
Johann Sebastian Bach As His World Knew Him |
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Author: Otto L. Bettmann |
Language: English; ISBN: 1559722797 |
Carol Publishing Corporation |
1998 |
HC / 235 pp |
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B-4 |
Masters of the Orchestra from Bach to Prokofieff |

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Authors: Louis Leopold Biancolli, Herbert Francis Peyser |
Language: English; ISBN: 0837125456 |
Greenwood Press Reprint |
1969 |
HC / 481 pp |
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B-5 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Music Giant |
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Author: Claire Bishop |
Language: English; ISBN: 0811645134 |
Arcade Books |
1972 |
HC / 144 pp |
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B-6 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Zweiter Band |

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Author: Karl Hermann Bitter |
Language: German; ISBN: 0543923568 |
Adamant Media Corporation |
2006 |
PB / 297 pp |
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B-7 |
Bach (The Mayfair biographies) |
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Author: Eric Blom |
Language: English; ASIN: B00088SB50 |
Murdoch, Murdoch & Co |
1929 |
UB / 30 pp |
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B-8 |
Bach (Master Musicians Series) |

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3rd edition |
Author: Malcolm Boyd |
Language: English; ISBN: 0195142225 |
Oxford University Press, USA |
2001 |
HC / 344 pp |
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B-9 |
Oxford Composer Companions: J.S. Bach |

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Oxford Composer Companion |
Author: Malcolm Boyd; Author: John Butt |
Language: English; ISBN: 0198606206 |
Oxford University Press, USA |
2003 |
PB / 656 pp |
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B-10 |
The Cambridge Companion to Bach |

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Cambridge Companions to Music |
Editor: John Butt |
Language: English; ISBN: 0521587808 |
Cambridge University Press |
1997 |
PB / 342 pp |
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C-1 |
Bach |
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Author: Luis Carlos Gago |
Language: Spanish; ISBN: 8420646822 |
Alianza |
1999 |
PB / |
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C-2 |
Blut Jesu Und die Lehre Von der Verschnung Im Werk Johann Sebastian Bachs (Verhandelingen, Afd. Letterkunde / Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) |
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Author: A.A. Clement |
Language: German; ISBN: 0444857834 |
Elsevier Science Publishing Company |
2001 |
PB / 316 pp |
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D-1 |
The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents |

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Revised Edition |
Editors: Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Chirstoph Wolff |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393319563 |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1999 |
PB / 608 pp |
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D-2 |
The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents |

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Revised Edition |
Editors: Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, Christoph Wolff |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393045587 |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1998 |
HC / 551 pp |
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D-4 |
The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in letters and Documents |
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Editors: Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel |
Language: English |
J.M. Dent & Sons |
1967 |
HC / 474 pp |
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D-5 |
The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in letters and Documents |

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Revised edition |
Editors: Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393002594 |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1966 |
PB / 80pp |
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B-6 |
The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents |
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1st Edition |
Editors: Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel |
Language: English; ASIN: B000GHC0E6, B000GP07NE |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1945 |
HC / |
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D-7 |
Bach and Handel: The Consummation of the Baroque in Music |
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Author: Archibald Davison |
Language: English; ISBN: 0835759423 |
Umi Research Pr |
1989 |
PB / |
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D-8 |
Bach (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers) |

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New Edition |
Author: Tim Dowley |
Language: English; ISBN: 0711902623 |
Omnibus Press |
1984 |
PB / 142 pp |
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D-9 |
Bach: His Life and Times |
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Composers, their lives and times |
Author: Tim Dowley |
Language: English; ISBN: 0859361454 |
Hippocrene Books |
1982 |
HC / 144 pp |
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D-10 |
Bach and the Patterns of Invention |

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Author: Laurence Dreyfus |
Language: English; ISBN: 0674060059 |
Harvard University Press |
1997 |
HC / 288 pp |
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F-1 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Printed for the 300th Anniversary of Bach's Birth. Covers his Family, his youth, Mühlhausen, Weimar, Leipzig; and than covers his Cantatas, keyboard, Masses, Passions, etc. |
Author: Werner Felix |
Language: German; ISBN: 3765102024 |
VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig (1984) |
1984 |
UB / 191 pp |
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F-2 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |

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1st American Edition; Printed for the 300th Anniversary of Bach's Birth. Covers his Family, his youth, Mühlhausen, Weimar, Leipzig; and than covers his Cantatas, keyboard, Masses, Passions, etc. |
Author: Werner Felix; English Text: Orbis Publishing Limited 1985 (Translators) |
Language: English; ISBN: |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1985 |
HB / 182 pp |
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F-3 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life In Pictures And Documents |

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Book & CD edition |
Author: Hans Conrad Fischer |
Language: English; ISBN: 080063764X |
Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
2005 |
HC / 191 pp |
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F-4 |
On Johann Sebastian Bach's Life, Genius, and Works |
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Included in 'The Bach Reader' edited by Hans T. David & Arthur Mendel |
Author: Johann Nikolaus Forkel; Engish translation: A.C.E. Kollmann [?] 1820 |
J.M. Dent & Sons |
1802 |
64 pp |
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G-1 |
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment |

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Author: James R. Gaines |
Language: English; ISBN: 0007156588 |
Fourth Estate |
2005 |
HC / 352 pp |
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G-2 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work |

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Author: Martin Geck; Forward: Kurt Masur; English translation: John Hargraves |
Language: English; ISBN: 0151006482 |
Harcourt |
2006 |
HC / 736 pp |
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G-3 |
Bach. Leben und Werk |

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Author: Martin Geck |
Language: German; ISBN: 3499611716 |
Rowohlt Tb |
2001 |
PB / |
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G-4 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Mit Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten |

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Rowohlts Monographien - Originalausg edition |
Author: Martin Geck |
Language: German; ISBN: 3499505118 |
Rowohlt |
1993 |
UB / 160 pp |
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G-5 |
Bach (Life & Times) |

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Author: Martin Geck; Introduction: John Butt; English translation: Anthea Bell |
Language: English; ISBN: 1904341160 |
Haus Publishing |
2003 |
PB / 176 pp |
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G-6 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Culmination of An Era |

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Author: Karl Geiringer |
Language: English; ISBN: 0195005546 |
Oxford University Press, USA |
1966 |
HC / 394 pp |
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G-7 |
The Bach Family: Seven Generations of Creative Genius |
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Da Capo Press music reprint series |
Authors: Karl Geiringer, Irene Geiringer |
Language: English; ISBN: 0306795965 |
Da Capo Press |
1980 |
HC / 516 pp |
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G-8 |
Juan Sebastian Bach: Un Mundo Dentro Del Mundo |
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Author: Ilse De Greiff |
Language: Spanish; ISBN: 9583014036 |
Panamericana Editorial |
2004 |
PB / 100 pp |
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G-9 |
Bach |
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Author: Eva Grew |
Language: English; ASIN: B0007E8FFQ |
Collier Books |
1962 |
PB / 253 pp |
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G-10 |
MOI, JSB |
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Jean Sébastian Bach |
Author: Jean-Pierre Grivois |
Language: French |
Bookploe |
2000 |
PB / 626 pp |
See: MOI, JSb [by J.P. Grivois] |
G-11 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Master and His Work |
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Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series |
Author: Wilibald Gurlitt |
Language: English; ISBN: 0306762625 |
Da Capo Press |
1986 |
HC / 149 pp |
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H-2 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality |
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Revised Edition |
Authors: Charles Hubert Hastings, Bart Parry |
Language: English; ISBN: 0837143098 |
Greenwood Press Reprint |
1970 |
HC / 584 pp |
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H-3 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: An Essential Guide to His Life and Works |

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Classic FM Lifelines |
Author: Christopher Headington |
Language: English; ISBN: 1862050260 |
Pavilion Books |
1997 |
PB / 108 pp |
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H-4 |
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |

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20th Anniversay edition |
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Language: English; ISBN: 0465026567 |
Basic Books |
1999 |
PB / 777 pp |
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K-1 |
Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers |

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Revised edition |
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh |
Language: English; ISBN: 0310208068 |
Zondervan |
1996 |
PB / 256 pp |
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K-2 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Leben Und Zeit Im Bild |

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Author: Claudia Knispel |
Language: German; ISBN: 3890074421 |
Laaber |
2001 |
HC / 206 pp |
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L-1 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Author: Paul Lang |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393022323 |
W.W. Norton & Company |
1985 |
HC |
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L-2 |
Dance and the Music of J. S. Bach: Expanded Edition |

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Expanded edition |
Authors: Meredith Little, Natalie Jenne |
Language: English; ISBN: 0253214645 |
Indiana University Press |
200 |
PB / 288 pp |
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M-1 |
Bach and His World (Great masters) |
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Author: Cynthia Millar |
Language: English; ISBN: 0382063783 |
Silver Burdett Pr |
1980 |
LB / 29 pp |
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N-1 |
Bach and His World |
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Author: Werner Neumann |
Language: English; ISBN: 0670143936 |
Studio |
1970 |
HC / |
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P-1 |
J. S. Bach |
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Author: Andre Pirro; Illustrator: B/W Plates and Musical Scores |
Language: English; ASIN: B0007G5EOY |
The Orion Press |
1957 |
HC / 204 pp |
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P-2 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, the Organist and His Works for the Organ |
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Author: Andre Pirro |
Language: English; ISBN: 0404130895 |
AMS Press |
1974 |
HC / 116 pp |
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R-2 |
Bach: A Biography, With a Survey of Books, Editions, and Recordings (The Concertgoer's companions) |
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Author: Alec Robertson |
Language: English; ISBN: 0208010556 |
Shoe String Pr Inc |
1977 |
HC / 140 pp |
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S-1 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |

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Author: Albert Schweitzer; English translation: Ernest Newman |
Language: English; ISBN: 376510034X |
Breitkopf & Härtel |
1990 |
HC / |
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S-2 |
J. S. Bach, Vol. 1 |

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Author: Albert Schweitzer; English translation: Ernest Newman |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486216314 |
Dover Publications |
1967 |
PB / 442 pp |
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S-3 |
J.S. Bach, 2 vols. |
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Author: Albert Schweitzer; English translation: Ernest Newman |
Language: English; ASIN: B000GT85CU |
Dover Publications |
1966 |
PB / |
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S-4 |
J S Bach, Two Volume Set |
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Author: Albert Schweitzer; English translation: Ernest Newman |
Language: English; ASIN: B000GQQ16K |
Adam & Charles Black |
1947 |
HC / |
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S-5 |
J.S. Bach, 2 vols. |
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Author: Albert Schweitzer; English translation: Ernest Newman; Forward: Charles Marie Widor |
Language: English; ASIN: B000GT7Z2Q |
Adam and Charles Black |
1945 |
HC / |
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S-6 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times, Influence |

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Editors: Barbara Schwendowius, Wolfgang Domling; Photographer: Wolfgang D2omling |
Language: English; ISBN: 0300032684 |
Yale University Press |
1984 |
HC / 179 pp |
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S-7 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life, Times, Influences |
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Authors: Barbara Schwendoweirs, Wolfgang Domling |
Language: English; ISBN: 3761805896 |
Taylor & Francis |
1977 |
HC / 179 pp |
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S-8 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750, Volume I |

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Unabrdgd edition |
Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J.A. Fuller-Maitland |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486274128 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / 1992 |
PB / 676 pp |
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S-9 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750, Volume II |

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Unabridgd edition |
Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J. A. Fuller-Maitland (1885) |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486274136 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / 2000 |
PB / 721 pp |
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S-10 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750, Volume III |

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Unabrdgd edition |
Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J.A. Fuller-Maitland |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486274144 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / 1992 |
PB / 422 pp |
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S-11 |
Johann Sebatian Bach, Vols 2&3 |
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His work and influences on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 |
Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J.A. Fuller-Maitland |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486276430 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / 1992 |
PB. / |
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S-12 |
Johann Sebatian Bach [Bound As 2] |
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His work and influences on the music of Germany, 1685-1750 |
Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J.A. Fuller-Maitland |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486222799 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / |
HC. / |
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S-14 |
Johann Sebastian Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach) |
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Author: Philipp Spitta; English translation: Clara Bell & J.A. Fuller-Maitland |
Language: English; ISBN: 0486222780 |
Dover Publications |
1873-1880 / 1952 |
HC / |
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T-1 |
Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet |

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Author: Ruth Tatlow |
Language: English; ISBN: 0521361915 |
Cambridge UniversitPress |
1991 |
HC / 200 pp |
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T-2 |
Bach: A Biography |

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Author: Charles Sanford Terry |
Language: English; ISBN: 0766146774 |
Kessinger Publishing |
2003 |
PB / 388 pp |
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W-1 |
Bach: Everyman's Library-EMI Classics Music Companions |

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Everyman's Library. EMI Classics Music Companions - Book & CD edition |
Author: Peter Washington |
Language: English; ISBN: 0375400028 |
Everyman's Library |
1997 |
HC / 196 pp |
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W-2 |
The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach () |

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MusicMakers: World's Greatest Composers (Masters of Music) |
Author: Jim Whiting |
Language: English; ISBN: 1584151919 |
Mitchell Lane Publishers |
2003 |
HC / 48 pp |
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W-3 |
Glory And Honor: The Music And Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach |

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Leaders in Action |
Author: Gregory Wilbur |
Language: English; ISBN: 158182470X |
Cumberland House Publishing |
2005 |
HC / 260 pp |
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W-4 |
J.S. Bach: A Life in Music |
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Author: Peter Williams |
Language: English; ISBN: 0521870747 |
Cambridge University Press |
2007 |
HC / 380 pp |
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W-5 |
The Life of Bach |

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Musical Lives |
Author: Peter Williams |
Language: English; ISBN: 0521533740 |
Cambridge University Press |
2003 |
PB / 228 pp |
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W-6 |
Notes on Bach: 20 Crucial Works |

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Notes on... |
Author: Conrad Wilson |
Language: English; ISBN: 0802829929 |
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Compa |
2005 |
PB / 125 pp |
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W-7 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |

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New Edition |
Author: Christoph Wolff |
Language: English; ISBN: 0199248842 |
Oxford University Press |
2002 |
PB / 620 pp |
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W-8 |
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician |

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Author: Christoph Wolff |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393322564 |
W. W. Norton & Company |
2001 |
PB / 624 pp |
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W-9 |
The New Grove Bach Family |
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The Composer biography series - 1st American ed edition |
Author: Christopher Wolff |
Language: English; ISBN: 0393016846 |
W W Norton & Co Inc |
1983 |
HC / 372 pp |
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W-10 |
Grove Composers: The Bach Family |
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Grove Music Composer Biography |
Authors: Christoph Wolff, Peter Wollny, Urlich Leisinger, Stephen Roe |
Language: English; ISBN: 0195221826 |
Oxford University Press |
2005 |
HC / 384 |
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W-11 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |

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Author: Hannsdieter Wohlfarth |
Language: English; ISBN: 0718826175 |
James Clarke & Co Ltd |
1985 |
HC / |
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (August 2006 -
August 2022)
Thanks to contributors: Wayne Davies (August 2006), Ilario Zampone (August 2006) |
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