A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
CHAPTER XXIII--JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH 265-272
Bach as a composer--sketch--his clavier--attainments as virtuoso upon the clavier and the organ--choral works--Passion oratorios--his pre-eminence as writer of fugues--general sketch of the form of a fugue--prelude--mutually complementary--Bach's concertos--his rhythm.