Myself, my all, are in Thy hand.
An addendum to the Genealogy, in C. P. E. Bach's hand, gives July 30 as the date of his father's death.
July 18.
See Genealogical Tables VII. and VIII.
The statement is misleading. Of the five sons of the first marriage, two were famous, two died in infancy, and the fifth abandoned a promising musical career for the law. Of the six sons of the second marriage, one was imbecile, three died in infancy, two were famous.
See Introduction, p. XXI, supra.
In view of Bach's memorial of August 23, 1730 (infra), this seems to be the meaning of the resolution.
Steigt freudig in die Luft, first performed at Cöthen, set to a new text, Schwingt freudig euch empor.
The well-known portrait by C. F. Rr. Liszewski in the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, Berlin, was painted in 1772, twenty-two years after Bach's death. It represents him at a table with music-paper before him and an adjacent Clavier. Pirro uses for his frontispiece a portrait by Geber, which bears no resemblance whatever to the Haussmann or Volbach pictures. Mention must also be made of a singularly engaging picture of Bach at the age of thirty-five. It hangs in the Eisenach Bach Museum and is by Johann Jak. Ihle. It is reproduced as the frontispiece of this volume.
His Versuch über die wahre Art des Klavier zu spielen was published (Part I.) in 1753.