Evening in the palace of reason : Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

Evening in the palace of reason : Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaines, James R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Fourth Estate, [2005]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Bach, Johann Sebastian, > 1685-1750.
Frederick > II, > King of Prussia, > 1712-1786.
Enlightenment > Germany.
Enlightenment.
Germany.
Table of 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.

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