Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment by James R. Gaines

Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment

James R. Gaines

336 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1747 si...

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