| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
336 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-305), discography (pages [307]-309), and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
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Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.
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Enlightenment -- Germany.
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| ISBN |
0007156588 |
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