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The Temple of Fame and Friendship - Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle (Hardcover)
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The Temple of Fame and Friendship - Portraits, Music, and History in the C. P. E. Bach Circle (Hardcover)
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This book examines the renowned portrait collection assembled by C.
P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach's second son. One of the most celebrated
German composers of the eighteenth century, C. P. E. Bach spent
decades assembling an extensive portrait collection of some four
hundred music-related items-from oil paintings to engraved prints.
The collection was dispersed after Bach's death in 1788, but with
Annette Richards's painstaking reconstruction, the portraits once
again present a vivid panorama of music history and culture,
reanimating the sensibility and humor of Bach's time. Far more than
a mere multitude of faces, Richards argues, the collection was a
major part of the composer's work that sought to establish music as
an object of aesthetic, philosophical, and historical study. The
Temple of Fame and Friendship brings C. P. E. Bach's collection to
life, giving readers a sense of what it was like for visitors to
tour the portrait gallery and experience music in rooms thick with
the faces of friends, colleagues, and forebears. She uses the
collection to analyze the "portraitive" aspect of Bach's music,
engaging with the influential theories of Swiss physiognomist
Johann Caspar Lavater. She also explores the collection as a mode
of cultivating and preserving friendship, connecting this to the
culture of remembrance that resonates in Bach's domestic music.
Richards shows how the new music historiography of the late
eighteenth century, rich in anecdote, memoir, and verbal portrait,
was deeply indebted to portrait collecting and its negotiation
between presence and detachment, fact and feeling.
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