Johann Sebastian Bach

Date

1685–1750

Description

City of birth: Eisenach
Country of birth: Germany
Field of activity: Culture — music

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Quotes

‘He had great reason as an artist to be proud of his extraordinary talents, and must have been conscious of his superiority over the rest of his brother professors. But so full of amiability was his character that he never exhibited the ostentation on this account. On the contrary, he practised the virtue of modesty in so high a degree, that as long as he alone was concerned, even face to face with the loud conceits of artists beneath him, he rarely asserted his enormous superiority. Pride and haughtiness were unknown to him; and though esteemed and flattered by princes and nobles, admired by brother artists, and respected and loaded with applause by countless devotees, he remained the same to all. He was especially tolerant towards foreign artists, treating them, even the most unworthy, with especial kindness.’

Author

C.L. Hilgenfeldt

Title of the publication

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life and Writings

Other contributors

Edward F. Rimbault, translator

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Metzler & Co

City of publication

London

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United Kingdom

Publication date

1869

Location [pp. or web]

Ch. III, p. 23

Other location

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ml14bb&view=1up&seq=5

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

Edward F. Rimbault (1816–1876) was an English organist, musicologist and author. His book on Bach is adapted from the book Johann Sebastian Bach’s leben, wirken und werke by C.L Hilgenfeldt, published in German by F. Hofmeister, 1850, Leipzig with additions from Dr Forkel’s Life of Bach, 1802 and others.