The biographies are tougher on Bach than some other composers because we just have less material on him. Check out the John Eliot Gardiner bio, but I found learning about Bach's life helped me little in understanding the music, unlike other bio's I've read of, say, Brahms and Beethoven.
This is a very rewarding disc to revisit.
The biographies are tougher on Bach than some other composers because we just have less material on him. Check out the John Eliot Gardiner bio, but I found learning about Bach's life helped me little in understanding the music, unlike other bio's I've read of, say, Brahms and Beethoven.