CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Bach’s Ancestry[1]
CHAPTER II.
1685-1708.
His Youth and Apprenticeship—in an orchestra at Weimar—andas organist at Arnstadt and Muehlhausen:—Marriage[14]
Early Compositions chiefly for Organ and Clavichord[21]-42
CHAPTER III.
1708-1717.
Organist and Concertmeister at Weimar[29]
The Organ Works[37]-42
CHAPTER IV.
1717-1723.
Capellmeister at Coethen: Second Marriage[43]
The Works for Clavichord, Chamber, and Orchestra[51]-56
CHAPTER V.
1723-1730.
Cantor at Leipzig: the Music of Bach’s Household[58]
CHAPTER VI.
1730-1734.
Bach’s Work at Leipzig[73]
The Secular Cantatas[75]-80
The Church Cantatas and Oratorios[80]-86
The Motets[86]-87
CHAPTER VII.
The Passion Music and the High Mass[88]
CHAPTER VIII.
1734-1750.
Bach’s later years at Leipzig: his Death[103]
The Great Collections of Fugues[111]-116
CHAPTER IX.
Characteristic of Bach: Estimation in England[118]
Pedigree of Musicians in the Family of Bach[128]
Chronological List of Church Cantatas[131]

SEBASTIAN BACH.