Johann Sebastian Bach | Maarten 't Hart

When Maarten 't Hart was eight years old, he heard Wohl Mir, Dass Ich Jesum Habe' from Cantate 147 in the famous piano processing of Myra Hess. It was the best thing he had ever heard. Bach is his oldest, deepest, greatest love, even more than Mozart. This is also due to the fact that he lashes at the piano every day to the spreming spirit of this unchanging genius. In this book he discusses a number of biographical ambiguities in Bach's life, he tries to show that Bach got into crisis around 1730 because of his domestic circumstances, he gives his vision of the cantatas, the concerts, the Wohltemperierte Klavier, the other Klavier music, the MatthäusPassion, the chamber music, and on the extensive literature about the Bach phenomenon. "