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| Named Person: | Johann Sebastian Bach; Frederick, King of Prussia |
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| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James R Gaines |
| ISBN: | 0007156588 9780007156580 |
| OCLC Number: | 57764849 |
| Description: | 336 p. : ill., music ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Theme for a pas de deux -- Biography of a temperament -- The Hohenzollern real estate company -- A small, unready alchemist -- Giants, spies, and the lash: life with "Fatty" -- The sharp edges of genius -- Witness to an execution -- Song of the endlessly orbiting spheres -- A changeling among the swans -- The artist in a paint-by-numbers world -- War and peace and a mechanical duck -- The night of a musical offering -- Afterlives: an epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | James R. Gaines. |
Abstract:
Tells the story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great.
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