Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Figures xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Prologue. The Century of Bach and Mozart as a Music-Historical Epoch: A Different Argument for the Proposition 1
7. 1. Young Man Bach: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Bach Biography 9
8. 2. The Notebooks for Wilhelm Friedemann and Anna Magdalena Bach: Some Biographical Lessons 30
9. 3. Bach and Luther 38
10. 4. Redeeming the St. John Passion—and J. S. Bach 56
11. 5. Bach’s Keyboard Music 65
12. 6. The Minimalist and Traditionalist Approaches to Performing Bach’s Choral Music: Some Further Thoughts 114
13. 7. Truth and Beauty: J. S. Bach at the Crossroads of Cultural History 121
14. 8. Bach at Mid-Life: The Christmas Oratorio and the Search for New Paths 130
15. 9. Bach at the Boundaries of Music History: Preliminary Reflections on the B-Minor Mass and the Late-Style Paradigm 148
16. 10. Father and Sons: Confronting a Uniquely Daunting Paternal Legacy 156
17. 11. Johann Christian Bach and Eros 174
18. 12. Bach and Mozart: Styles of Musical Genius 186
19. 13. Mozart and Amadeus 197
20. 14. Bach and Mozart’s Artistic Maturity 212
21. 15. Mozart’s Unfinished: Some Lessons of the Fragments 238
22. Epilogue (ossia Postmortem). Had Mozart Lived Longer: Some Cautious (and Incautious) Speculations 252
23. Notes 261
24. Works Cited 299
25. Index 315